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Unread 01-02-2006, 06:32 PM   #1
BillA
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Default Wind Tunnel Construction

This will be a joint blog (biblog ?) by Ben and self describing our progress towards the construction of our respective wind tunnels. Contributions, comments, and criticism solicited as always.

This post will be an updated index/reference list of the source materials. (material from later posts will be moved or copied here)

Stds and Specs:
http://www.amca.org/crp/fans.asp (anyone have links to the docs themselves ?)
AMCA 210 - Laboratory Methods of Testing Fans for Rating Purposes.
AMCA 300 - Test Code for Sound Rating Air Moving Devices.
AMCA 301 - Method of Calculating Fan Sound Ratings from Laboratory Test Data.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueL...&scopelist=ALL
http://cart.amca.org/estore/download/amca_211.pdf

A ready-made guide:
http://www.me.pdx.edu/~gerry/epub/pd...enchManual.pdf

General wind tunnel references:
http://hightech.lbl.gov/Documents/CL...tProc_v1.3.pdf has dwg of wind tunnel

Specific equipment references:
wind tunnel
http://www.fantester.com this is my target, ~250CFM leaves some headroom
http://www.fantester.com/man16.htm the actual manual
http://www.overclockers.com/articles750/ JoeC's use of a wind tunnel
http://www.climatictesting.com/Air%2...st%20Stand.htm new
nozzles
http://www.helandermetal.com/air-flow-nozzle.htm other source ? (must be to spec, only)
fan
http://www.surplussales.com/Fans-Blo...ansBlow-1.html assorted
heat exchanger
http://www.lytron.com/reg/files/Lytr...alog_hx_AL.pdf ES7070
blast gate
http://cgi.ebay.com/8-CAST-ALUM-BLAS...QQcmdZViewItem

Other air measurement stuff:
http://www.ddc-online.org/inout/inou...na_06flow.aspx
http://www.ebtron.com/pdf/white_pape...son_052603.pdf
http://www.magnetrol.com/us/html/vie...sp?pdf=mii\552
http://www.ashrae.org/template/Asset...?assetID=22561
http://www.pdhonline.org/courses/m19...sourcebook.pdf

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