Tom Rauch wrote:
> In fact most noise is caused by bearings in the fan, turbulence in
> the impeller, and at times from turbulence in the device the air is
> forced through. Some fans and blowers have poor balance, but that
> mostly causes a low rumble.
One manufacturer of hard drives (Fujitsu if memory servers me correct) has
produced what has been billed as a silent drive. Clearly motors can be made
very quite.
I'm not aware of how to reduce wind noise - that is I'm sure a specialist
subject I know zero about.
Vapour cooling is a method used for large tubes and has been also been used
by some ham amps. I once had a 4CV20000, which was a vapour cooled 20 kW
device from Eimac. I abandoned any ideas of using it, since I did not know
its condition and had no hope of getting another. However, Eimac did (do?)
make an 800 W (if memory severs me right) vapour cooled tube and I believe
a ham amp used it. Vapour cooling is almost silent.
I used to use a rather inefficient laser system (50 kW input, for 1W out -
and that was on a good day). The coolers on that made rather a lot of
noise.
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Dr. David Kirkby,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
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e-mail davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
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