John Tserkezis wrote in message
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N Cook wrote:

2 of the same fan blowing air in over the heatsink but there is a noise
like
a variable direction wind or slightly gusty wind as though one fan has a
bearing problem.
It would seem one fan is fighting the other to some extent, significant
? or
just one of those things ? .
I was thinking of putting a dividing baffle between the 2.

Disconnecting each in turn and they run perfectly normally with no
change of
sound. I may dig out a strobe if i can remember where it is and see if
the
blade speed does vary in the double active case.

Beat oscillation. Basically, the normal fan physical noise pitch of
the
two fans are _almost_ the same. What you're hearing is the difference
between
the two. (it may be less than 1Hz, because the fans will probably be quite
closely matched in noise and speed).

It doesn't cause any harm other than you getting fed up with the noise
and
smashing it to bits.

To "fix" the problem, you could try to physically isolate the two fans
from
each other (or the common chassis) by using some sponge or rubber or some
such, to help prevent fan vibration getting into the chassis or other fan
(if
you have them physically stuck together).

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I should have said these are 3inch, 12V dc fans rather than shaded pole
motors so unlikely to match speed that closely. Both are mounted rigidly, no
grommets, to steel chassis and separated by 1.2 inch , the nearest parts of
the heatsink fins are only 3/8 inch from the fan surrounds.
Placing a piece of card between the 2 fans seems to stop the interference
but not desirable in the case of failure of one fan perhaps.

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