I need a fan to suck hot air out of the room (like a hot air return vent). Can this fan do it? What do i need if not?
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depending on your room size and how fast you want the hot air out? These kind of inline blower boost fans are good to an extentlike in bath rooms,closed space,garages,where it takes time but the operational cost is minimal. If you have larger area,you are looking for a 10to 24 inches diameter window mount exhaust fans with louvers outside built-in and th cost can run you $120 to 300.GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL.com 8889787759 check out site. Home depot/Lowes/Harbour Freight offers portables under $100.
89150
No, this is not the fan for your application. You need a centrifugal fan. Just use that phrase in Amazon "search". They're more expensive than this one, but they'll do the job.
89151
yes i use it inline above the filter and vent it out thru the light and these nice motors do great- you cant go wrong with these
89152
It depends, if the room is a 5x5 this will help. I use this fan in conjunction with a 600 watt light to grow veggies. The fan on one end of the light and a six inch dryer vent type hose on the other end. The fan cools the light and the hose blows the hot air out of the room. I also use an oscillating fan as well. Bigger room= bigger fan. Hope this helps
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This or any other fan will work. I use this fan on a cool tube reflector on my 1000 watt hps. I have it plumbed bring air from outside the room threw the light and right back out of the room. so I guess what I am saying is you will need to be bringing in fresh air as you are exhausting the hot air. Room size makes a difference as well.
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In my opinion, yes. I needed to move cold air from an unfinished storage room to a room full of electronics that got very warm. This fan did the trick. Also has an infinitely adjustable fan speed so you can dial it to the exact speed you need.
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Despite Mr. Goddard's answer, I know from personal experience that you SHOULD NOT blow a fan directly at the unit. He's correct that it will trick the heater's thermostat into putting out more heat. It will cause the unit to overheat to be point where it's safety shutoff will kick in turning the unit off. Do that too much and the unit will die. The unit does very well at heating at floor level and puts out heat from above too. The best use of a fan is to aim it at the ceiling in such a way that it blows the warm air collected there back down into the room.
1756758
That would work fine. Just make sure you feel which way the fan is blowing and turn it on the appropriate side to blow down.
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It will work to keep the air in the room a pretty constant temperature by mixing the air. It is also quite capable of moving a lot of air and will create quite a breeze in a room. The vortices created by the fan might help bring air in from the outside, but that isn;t what its designed to do. Mainlt designed to miz the air inside a room or area. Still, if you have cooler air coming in from a window, it will mix it with the warmer air in the house and help create overall cooling temp.
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It would move air, but what is your intent? If you use it as an exhaust fan you would have to move air from someplace else in the room (open window). If used as an intact fan, then it would make a positive pressure environment if no outside vent/window/door is open.
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Is it possible to reverse the fan? - I'm not an electronics expert but it might be possible. The only reason I can see that you would want to do this is to pull air "into" the existing exhaust and out the current "intake" making it pull hot air in from within a smaller area. There might be better products to do this.Slowing it down shouldn't take much more than putting in a resistor or two. But, again, I'm not an electronics expert, so that would take some research on how to accomplish this.
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It moves a lot more air than a circular fan and it will get the air around the room. Sounds like you really need and exhaust fan for a bathroom and this will just blow the air around it will not remove it from the space.
280788
The key will likely be do you have enough ventilation...It does not include a thermostat, so something with one might be a better idea.It does have a much stronger motor than most permanently mounted fans that I've seen...
584765
Should this fan work great when the power is out ran on a generator? Ore could some one recommend a better one it gets hot in the summer in Houston. I will have a window ac but want to help push the cool air. Thank you.
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This a very powerful strong blowing fan! Just remember ur not adding cold blowing air, it will be just circurlating the hot air. Hope this well helpful :)
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Absolutely it can. I've had this fan for a couple of months now and it works outstanding to cool off a hot room. Granted, it's not going to cool a room off as quickly as blasting an air conditioner, but no fan could. For the price here, this is an outstanding fan. I've already purchased another one of these Lasko fans, and am planning on ordering two more soon, for every room in my home. So that should tell you something. ;-) Enjoy!
1708943
I use mine to exhaust hot air from inside, the problem wound be above their high, unless you have scenes and then it's not a problem. Hope this helps, good luck..I love mine!
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We had the heater and blower installed by the gas company. The guy told us the blower wouldn't do much good. He said a ceiling fan is all you need. But, since we had already purchased the blower, we had him install it anyway. Now that we've used it a few times, we admit he was right. If you have a ceiling fan, forget the blower. It doesn't blow with much force at all....kinda pitiful, really. And it's a bit noisy, too, so save your money & just use a ceiling fan to circulate the heat.
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We use it as a heater, but we just pulled it out to try and I wouldn't recommend to use it as a fan. A) it blower isn't strong enough in my opinion and B) the air is warm. It's a good heater but you would be better off buying a cheap fan then using this to cool yourself off.
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Yes, AND to pull fresh air return. The rear of the cooling unit has 2 airflows, exhaust and return. The duct fan will assist with both airflows.
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Yes, you must vent it. An air conditioner that is not vented would just pump the hot air back into the room.