Hey XT, have you tried compacting the carbon? I've had a homemade in use for around a year without needing to change out the carbon...
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Anyone use a speed controller on a vortex fan?
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Xtbudda
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I never tried compacting it, in my prev diy scrubber because of its design.MTF-Sandman said:
At the time, when i first built the scrubber, I had just one cabinet and so not to loose space inside the box, I put the cardboard box scrubber on the outside of the box and it was basically layers of furnace filters/act charcoa.
I never had an inline fan and was using heavy duty 12v fans, which wouldnt have had the cfm to push anything compacted really.
ONce I went to a dual cab, the scrubber setup wasnt scrubbing good enuf, so I grabbed an inline fan.
Xtbudda...
Dreamscape
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I just tried using "The Speedster" solid state fan controller (bghydro.com) on an 8" vortex and I'm definetly hearing the "humming" sound ...
Which really sucks considering you get the speed controller to lessen the sound by slowing the fan down but at around 60% fan speed is where the air is loud enough that you dont really hear the "hum" which is more like a dull "eeeeeeeeeee" sound ...
Below the 60 percent speed setting (give or take some percentage) the "eeeeeee" is louder than the air itself ...
Frustrating ...
EDIT : I've since used this speedster controller for the Mag drive pump in an EZ - Cloner 120 with great success ... it get it low enough to cool the pump and the pump now doesn't vibrate nearly as much meaning less noise for neighbors
Which really sucks considering you get the speed controller to lessen the sound by slowing the fan down but at around 60% fan speed is where the air is loud enough that you dont really hear the "hum" which is more like a dull "eeeeeeeeeee" sound ...
Below the 60 percent speed setting (give or take some percentage) the "eeeeeee" is louder than the air itself ...
Frustrating ...
EDIT : I've since used this speedster controller for the Mag drive pump in an EZ - Cloner 120 with great success ... it get it low enough to cool the pump and the pump now doesn't vibrate nearly as much meaning less noise for neighbors
