DurbanPoison
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I'll be re-doing the whole DIY today. I'm going to attempt to make everything a little more clear and retake pictures and try to be as detailed as possible.
durbanpoison said:Just take the CFM of your fan and choose the diamater of core you want and divide it accordingly. For example: I have 175 CFM and intend to use a 4" Diameter core. So I can look at the list above and figure;
150(CFM) divide 9(H) = 16.6 (Approximately)
Then I can take my 175(CFM Fan) and divide it by 16.6 to get 10.5". Therefore, my 175 cfm fan with a 4" Diameter would need a core height of 10.5".
xero said:I used 1/4 inch hardware cloth (nice and springy) with a piece of screen door material cut to size laid over it. It pretty much sticks to the hardware cloth on sharp edges by itself, bt you'll have to push it on a little. It pretty much eliminates the need to stretch panyhoes over the outside, though I did over the inner 6" filter with a lot of work. The outside 8" was impossible, so I'm glad I had already bought the screen.
How is it that you get a backdraft if your inner core is too short? Wouldn't it just blow it through the filter faster with less surface area? I followed your formula and made a 24" though. It's huge, gonna be hard to conceal unless I sit it on top of a cab inside a box.