what fans are you using?

[fungia]

i need to replace my icecap fans. what fans are you using and do you like them? the icecaps were okay but they expensive and can be noisy and the thermometer controller wasnt very useful because the fan was always blasting at full speed.

 

[Anonymous]

Icecaps in the canopy but they dont do allot. I use a cheap 6-inch clip on fan from Wally world.
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[wyw]

I hate my canopy fans they're loud and don't do a good job. I don't know what they are but I remember they were expensive. I like the cheep clip on in my sump I got at Target.

 

[Anonymous]

I got some suped up little clip on fans from Grainger. think they were called "windy" or something. 4" 20 bucks

 

[Anonymous]

$6 pc fans with therno control Enermax to be exact.

I bought them from www.newegg.com They have the dB rating as well as the CFM.

B

 

[Anonymous]

What came with the fixture which is probably just a normal CPU fan

 

[shellshocked]

I have the answer and I am a noise freak - only silent will do. Take a fan from a PC power supply (or buy one from radio shack) They are 12vdc. Get an AC/DC converter that has adjustable output voltage. Again radio shack should have. I run the fans at about 5vdc and they run silently. If you need more cooling bump the voltage up. You can trade noise for air movement. Works great. I actually have two fans in my canopy that cool a 250W MH and VHOs.

 

[bradl.]

The AC 4 inch Radio Shack fans are pretty quiete if you mount them just right.I tryed a dimmer to throttle it down but it didnt work.Oh well.

 

[Rikko]

A cheap computer 80mm fan wired to an AC adapter of my choice... I've picked up the nerdy habit of collecting various old adapters (since I have these fans and also do some LED work) so if one is too noisy I just find another one.

 

[Mihai]

I looked in a decent catalog (e.g., Digikey or Mouser) and they have about 100 different small fans. I picked the ones with the smallest noise (it happens to be Panasonic). I'm really happy with them.

M.