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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Whole house fan - possible to add variable speed?

On 7/15/2017 10:44 AM, FanOfWholeHouseFans wrote:
replying to JimT, FanOfWholeHouseFans wrote:
I beg to differ with "better than nothing." . Living in a dry climate where
the nights cool down very nicely, a whole house fan is the way to go for
cooling cheaply and sustainably in an overtaxed climate, and it works well.
Shut curtains and Windows all day to keep cool air in and hot air out.
Then,
once the evening outside temp drops near or below the inside temp, we open
every window and switch on the whole house fan, which cools down the house
lickety split with fresh air. BUT, these things are loud and we could not
sleep with it on or watch tv or talK on the phone. So I too keep looking
for a
variable speed fan that we can run quietly on low all night and when we
need
to hear. Would someone please manufacture these. There are lots of us
out here
who hate AC and want to do things more sustainably and who prefer
exchanging
stale house sir with fresh air, and who live in places where cool night
air in
summer is the best way of truly conditioning the ai!



Seven years later you are still looking for a variable speed switch? I
put mine in 30 years ago. Works well.

On high, the fan sucks so much air it sucked my pet gerbil up and tossed
them around and finally spit them out the soffits.