Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:16:33 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
In-Reply-To: <4C387B77.5030302@gmail.com>
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Rocket,
I use the kind normally found at discount stores and the like, they
are pretty common and about $10 each. They come with a spring clamp
which I discard. I mount them to the metal dash of my diesel westy by
drilling and tapping into Harbor Freight welder's magnets, puck sized
devices which almost cannot be removed from a metal surface unless
some fabric is glued underneath to keep them from forming a molecular
bond with the substrate they are stuck to.
The fans work very well and can be moved to the back seat area when
needed. There is no problem with the air reaching the driver. I have
used them for five or six years now. One is noisy and the other is
quiet (not the blades, but the motor) so it is luck of the draw when
you buy them. The have an oscillation mode and a fixed-position mode.
Jim
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe someday the air conditioning fairy will pay a visit and tell me
> that because I've been a good boy I'll have A/C in all my cars
> forevermore. More likely not, though.
>
> I have a dash-mounted fan like this one:
>
> <http://www.overstock.com/Auto-Parts/All-Metal-12-volt-Dash-Fan/2672978/product.html>
>
> And while it makes a quite pleasant whirring sound, the air doesn't
> reach the driver. I've tinkered with the curvature of the blades but no
> matter what I do, the fan is best-suited for blowing stuff off the dash,
> not cooling the driver.
>
> Now, if you take off the chrome wire cage and remove the blade assembly,
> then the blade assembly from one of these pops right onto the shaft:
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/Volt-Fan-12V-Suction-Base/dp/B001449QRY>
>
> Better blade design, it moves more air, and the air reaches the driver.
>
> Rather than stop there, though, I thought I'd ask the group if they have
> had good success with some other fan, or have come up with a good way to
> break up that bubble of hot air that seems to surround the driver and
> passenger's faces and heads. (And no, I don't mean the hot air that I
> emit when I express opinions!). At highway speeds, the wind wings are
> far too noisy; and not enough air blows from the defrost vents or the
> dash vents to do much good.
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
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