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Mains adapter for 12V fans - back to school!
Just thought I'd belatedly report how this went. N.B. measurements are
fairly rough... Using 5 (five!) akasa 2500 80mm PC fans (£5 each) set in a line in an 82cm raised MDF box with the gaps between fans blocked off.. Running at 12V increased the temperature drop accross the radiaor by about one third (approx - as measured by digital probe thermometer wedged gainst pipe/radiator using pipe insulation). IE it effectively turned the 1000mm radiator into a ~1300mm one. The room temperature went up in line with this (about 2.5 degr), Running at lower voltages appeared to have a roughly proportionate effect - eg about 15% improvement at 6V. I didn't get to do any measurements with just 2x2500 fans, But I have the impression this would have raised the temp by more than 2/5 of the above one third but still some way short of the 33%, I also ended up with a 3 x 1000 RPM box, which seemed to raise the output silently by about 10%. I tried blowing the rad with 10" deskfan at various angles to the radiator. The rad was a double, with the inner faces and convection fins blocked off by the radiator sides and the back blocked off by the brackets. For this reason I wasn't suprised to find this had little effect, maybe 10%, the shelf fitted a few inches over the top might not have helped. So I ended up with the small fax box in use all the time under RAD2 (room has 2 rads) and the 5-fan box on demand, including 20 mins after CH is switched off to extract the last dregs of warmth. One thing I would like to have tried is something like a thin mains tower fan on it's side blowing air up through the radiator from the bottom - I think this might work a treat!. Skeggy (on Googlr as server has lost my post). |
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Read this reply first!
Thats a shame, I meant the OP to go as a reply against my earlier topic,
basically about trying to use a box containing a row of 12V PC fans to get more heat out of a radiator to get the room remp up a bit. |
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