Have to enclose an air pump for silence

[rrog]

I have a 950 GPH Sunleaves air pump that needs to be silenced. I'm concerned about cooling the pump. These get hot, safe to say?

The only way to quiet these down would be to build a box to contain the pump. Allow for air supply in and out, obviously to pump to plants. Also I suspect that a separate cooling airflow will have to be accommodated as well.

Anyone successfully done this?

Thanks

 

[stoneroad]

metal brief case a pc fan and a bunch of foam figure it out. ill draw you a pic if needed how many valves you have on that bad boy btw?

 

[Greyskull]

dude have you thought about HANGING the air pump?
I hang all my airpumps.

it will alleviate any noise & vibration you have coming from it, and you won't have to build a box around it, either.

good luck?

 

[rrog]

Thanks guys. I'll have six 1/4" lines coming off that pump. Seems like all the noise is coming out the nozzle end supplying the air. May need to feed the lines through a pipe w/ insulation for a couple feet. See what happens.

I may suspend it or let it sit on a shelf that is heavily damped. May build a box, but I hate to have a separate system to cool it. But will likely anyway.

 

[grobart]

I have one of the $5x.00 Sunleaves Air Pumps. I made a box out of left over .5" MDF that was 1" larger than the pump itself on all sides. The air outlet went through one of the MDF sides that had holes drilled in it. At the opposite side of the box (near the air intake for the air pump) was a small low CFM computer fan blowing air over the pump and it's heatsinks, exhausting out the aforementioned drilled holes.

And I had hung the entire thing with bungee.

Forgot I even had it it was so quiet. I'm switching to organic soil, so no need for air pump anymore. Sorry I don't have pictures.

 

[rrog]

Very cool of you to tell us. So you didn't have to deal with the noise getting shot into the lines? I would have guessed that would be the big problem...