this fan kicks a$$... 110v fan.

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this fan kicks a$$... 110v fan.

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hey all just thought id share a few pics of my quite fan.

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soz didnt realise pics were so big.
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im not joking this fan is quiter than the 80mm case fan on the front of my case, and it dropped my temps by 5 degrees. :) . even if the resister does get a bit hot (hence why its mounted behind the fan) my system runs cooler with it.

45 idle and 53 load. now all i have to do is get rid of the little holes in the back of this chase choking this beast.

btw this is an extractor fan from a cooker hood.
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lol, Nice. :)

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But its 120 Volts! Thats crazy. most AC fans are quiet when run slower... but jeebus 120 in the computer like that?

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only one drawback from this fan apart from the fact i need to plug it into the mains is, my feet get cold i can feel the air getting pulled into my case. lol.

and a few bits of my mb flew out the back in a puff of smoke. :-).

wow looking at those pics i have a lot of dust in there gonna have to clear that out methinks.
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hmmm how many cfm that thing push? I got myself two of these, (will only probably use one) a while back, 235cfm at 12 volts, pretty quiet, these things actually FLOAT when I plugged em into the powersupply, the downforce was enough to lift the damn thing off the ground :)

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Yea when you get into the industrial type fans the output goes way up along with the price... but yea normaly they are dead quiet if you run them @ 75%.
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they can put out a lot of air just have it at the back extrating air rather than the front.
Yea when you get into the industrial type fans the output goes way up along with the price... but yea normaly they are dead quiet if you run them @ 75%.


hmm mines pretty quite cant hear it over the standard case fan in the front, but listening to these things getting to full speed is great.

hum....hhhuuuuummmmm...........hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm, lol

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recently upgraded my cpu cooler to the "Carnival cooler 825 from Akasa" temps went from 59 load 55 idle to 41 idle 45 load. yay!
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well you have a resitor on yours so its not running full speed. thats why its so quiet. I have a 8" fan somewere that takes like 25 seconds to spool up and about a minuet and a half to stop.
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nope im in england we use a 240v supply and thats a 110v fan the resister takes the 240v from the mains down to 110v.
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oh... sorry i did not know that. So when you buy computer parts does the PS come with the switch in the 220 position? And where do you get monitors... i dont think i have ever seen 220V monitors. I bet its just cause the common one here is 120.
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So when you buy computer parts does the PS come with the switch in the 220 position?


na only on the really old computers.
And where do you get monitors


the monitors are just 240v. well the label on the back of my monitor says 100-240V. just the standared in different places america had to use the 110v because its massive imagine how much pollution there would be if america used 240v. :)
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well the way our grids are set up it would be even better! 220 requires half the amps 110 does.
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well the way our grids are set up it would be even better! 220 requires half the amps 110 does.


didnt realise. any way this has gone way off topic. lol.
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Yes... yes it has.
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Neat fan.
I was thinking of using Shop Vac in exhaust mode for a CPU cooler. Sure it would sort of be loud, but I could run the hose into the case and sit the VAC itself outside so it wouldn't bother me and just be the noise of the air actually blowing. Actually if I had two hoses I could use it to suck the hot air out of the case, cool it outside, blow back onto CPU to cool it!
Hmmm, I could get a wet/dry vac and water cool even maybe :)
Naw that would be silly!

By the way I think about the 220V thingy, it uses the same amps as 110V in reality. Watts is watts, your volts and amps just decide how the watts are carried. 1500watts is 12.5 amps at 120V or 6.25 amps at 240V. Either way it's still 1500watts.
Also I think it's really still 12.5 amps anyway since the 240V is nothing more than 120V at 6.25 amps on one leg, and another leg exactly the same added to that to make 240V.

Kinda like batteries. 1 deepcycle 6V battery is 345amps, but wire in 2 for 12V and you still only have 345amps, although the batteries have a total of 790 amps at 6V. It's all the same thing just depends how you add it up, it's all still basically equal.

Although 220-240Vac IS better than 110-120Vac from the point motors run better and are more efieceicnt and such also less line loss and smaller wires at higher volts normally. Since 220 is broke into 2 110 lines, each line only carries half the load it would have to carry if it had been a 110 device.

Back to the fan. Is your 240Vac actaully comming in on 1 wire? Like our 110Vac comes in on just one wire?
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