[TenTec] Noise from Fans

[k6jek]

Nicely done.
 
Not on Ten-Tec but on other gear I've built temperature controllers. Most of the time the fans run at a snail's pace and make essentially zero noise. They only pick up the pace when they need to. Some ham offers a nice little kit but I can't seem to find the contact information.

Incidentally, a friend who does thermal analysis as part of his engineering practice pointed out that horizontal fins on heat sinks work poorly without a fan. He threw out some numbers but I've forgotten them. I seem to recall quite a difference between horizontal and vertical fins with the same surface area. This was after I built a home brew AM transmitter with giant, horizontally-finned heat sinks for the MOSFETs. I do remember him saying it takes very little air from a fan to dramatically improve the situation. So that's what added, just a little bit of moving air.

Jon

On Mar 6, 2014, at 3:02 PM, K8JHR wrote:

> Here is my solution - using very quiet computer fans.  See the link at the bottom of the page:    "Cooling Fan Project"
> 
> http://k8jhr.com/project_links.html
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> I sometimes use a small resistor to slow them down, but they run on 12v and usually spec out around 15-19 dB noise factor.
> 
> I just could not spend over $40 on the TT fan, when I could make one for less than $10 - including buying a brand new fan.  Mine are CoolerMaster fans that cost me $7 I think.
> 
> Maybe my plan will spur some other ideas.
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> ------------------------- K8JHR ---------------------
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> 
> On 3/6/2014 5:21 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
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>> At the time, most small PC towers had small case fans that ran on 12v,
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