View Single Post
Unread 05-25-2004, 06:43 AM   #5
bobkoure
Cooling Savant
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA - Boston area
Posts: 798
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by redleader
... They're probably better suited for radiators...
That's exactly the application I have in mind.
Axial fans, when undervolted to be quiet, have a really hard time pulling air through a heater core type radiator.
I don't have a curve for the blowers above, but I've been looking at other cage blower curves - and it looks like they both start out generating lots more pressure and lose it less quickly as the volts/revs drop. What I don't know is how quickly the noise drops as the volts/rpms drop.
As it is now, I have two undervolted panaflo axial fans "stacked" with a spacer between so as to pull air quietly through a heater core. IMHO the cage blower size/shape isn't any more annoying than this...
bobkoure is offline   Reply With Quote