What are these fans called and where do I buy them?
Posted by UkIan
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What are these fans called and where do I buy them? January 01, 2015 11:29PM |
It is 45x45x10mm in size with a vent at the bottom from which air is expelled. I've always called them blowers, but that doesn't seem to help my shop for them :/
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Re: What are these fans called and where do I buy them? January 02, 2015 12:44AM |
Nice start 
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Re: What are these fans called and where do I buy them? January 02, 2015 01:02AM |
But looking at, it might be Product specific.
ie. an open style fan, enclosed in a plastic shroud.
And used for the Bulldog Lite Extruder
[ooznest.co.uk]
It says, '- 1 x Bulldog mount + Integrated 12V Fan' so it might be a normal fan on a custom mount.
but you can print your own mount and use any other ducted fan
If you are finding a fan mount for this extruder, you could use this
[www.thingiverse.com]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2015 01:06AM by pushthatbolder.
ie. an open style fan, enclosed in a plastic shroud.
And used for the Bulldog Lite Extruder
[ooznest.co.uk]
It says, '- 1 x Bulldog mount + Integrated 12V Fan' so it might be a normal fan on a custom mount.
but you can print your own mount and use any other ducted fan
If you are finding a fan mount for this extruder, you could use this
[www.thingiverse.com]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2015 01:06AM by pushthatbolder.
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Re: What are these fans called and where do I buy them? January 02, 2015 04:26AM |
That's the one Ralph Thanks 
Yep, I stole the picture from the ooznest site. I only knew of these things existence because I had some come with the bulldogs. Not sure what I did with them :/
Thanks Yep, I stole the picture from the ooznest site. I only knew of these things existence because I had some come with the bulldogs. Not sure what I did with them :/
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Re: What are these fans called and where do I buy them? January 02, 2015 04:26AM |
Gad, 22 dollars for a fan??? Ok, time to turn the garage upside down
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Re: What are these fans called and where do I buy them? January 06, 2015 04:27PM |
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cdru
"Correct name" is relative to the source of information. Wikipedia lists it as a centrifugal fan. If you're buying one on Digikey for instance, they are listed as a blower where a traditional "CPU fan" is a tubeaxial fan.Quote
Ohmarinus
The correct name for these kind of blowers/fans is: Radial Fan.
Alright, however, if you were to name the techniques for comparison Axial vs Radial would be more logical, hence the '-ial'.
Indeed, centrifugal fan is also a correct naming, but will yield you less usable results when looking. I got them from Ebay and they are very, very strong. The air they move is incomparable to an axial fan
From then on I decided to just stick with radial fans for a lot of applications. However, they aren't always great, they are hard to control if you only want a little bit of air, I prefer an axial fan to cool my prints as it's more sensitive to PWM, in the way that I can control the axial fans more 'precise'.http://www.marinusdebeer.nl/
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