Cooling fan install on a hood (96 powerquad or other)

[jasno999]

Cooling fan install on a hood (96 powerquad or other)

I own a Corlife 96W powerquad PC light. It has 2 small coolign fans in it that I removed to clean tonight. They were dirty as anyhting. Well I clened them up and went to re-install and I forgot which way the aifrlow is supposed to go..

Both fans are on the left side of the light and on the right side there are two opening that are the same exact size but they have no fan in them....

Should I have the air flow goign from outside to inside or should I have the fans setup to blow air from inside the light to the outside??

 

[camaroracer214]

i would have them going in a way that would pull the warm air out of the fixture. that way you don't get a lot of heat buildup around the lights. if you have it setup in a way that pushes air into the fixture there's no guarantee that the inflowing air is circulating completely around the bulbs, especially if the fans aren't powerful enough to push enough air.

 

[Verruckt]

I have a 24" Coralife 96watt fixture also. On mine, when looking at the front of it.. The two fans on the left suck air into the fixture, and the two outlets on the right blow air out of the fixture.

 

[jasno999]

Ok sounds good. When I installed them I put them so air would blow out but when I put my hand over the fan little to nohting was coming out. I figued it must have been the housing around the fan was limiting the air out somehow or dead-headign the fan...

So I reversed the fans to blow air into the fixture and it seems to work better. So for now that is how I will leave it....