Alternate uses for your Delta fan?

[TBone202]

Hi all,
I recently put together an XP system and I wanted to get best cooling possible. I checked around and the Delta fans had the best CFM ratings I could find. I hear that Delta fans were extremely loud, but I thought it was just exaggeration. So I decided to get the biggest Delta I could find, the 80.16 CFM 80mm. Upon completion of the system, I fired it up with a great deal of anticipation and a little trepidation. As I was sitting there waiting for my ears to stop ringing I thought that this maybe wasn't such a good idea, so I decided to think of some alternate uses for this fan. Here are a few I came up with in no particular order...

1. Good for blow drying your St. Bernard in under 3 min.
2. Good for testing laminar air flow for any aspiring aerospace engineers looking to create a homemade wind tunnel.
3. Put some wings and a fuselage on it and you could start your own charter airline.

Anybody else have any good ideas for this screaming monstrosity?

Btw, I still use it... You get used to it after a while, although all my friends think I'm ignoring them since I can't hear my phone ring anymore

 

[mgpaulus]

How about making your VERY OWN Bassmaster 3000?

 

[xXgambitXx]

One of my roommates used to have a Delta HS so i've been subjected to the horror

1.) Mount one in your car and let your hair fly around as you pretend you're going down the highway in a convertible while still in your garage.

2.) Mount as many on an empty computer caes, all pointing in and use the case as a Moutain-Dew fridge in the computer room.

 

[SWScorch]

.... Sell them to me!!!!!

 

[TBone202]

I was thinking maybe I could attach some 3" PVC pipe to it and make a leaf blower out of it!!

 

[blade]

I mow my lawn with mine.

At first I had 8100rpm delta and a 7200rpm one but the problem was the 7200 one sat in the front so my case never hoovered evenly. So now I just use them to mow my lawn and fly to my gf's house.

Serioulsy, you can mow your lawn with these far faster than using any normal lawnmower. Beware if they get loose though so be sure they are very securely fastened.

 

[SWScorch]

Can you imagine if lawnmower blades spun at 7200 rpm? :Q You'd get a toe caught in it and within 2 seconds your entire body would be chop suey.

 

[fatbaby]

<< Can you imagine if lawnmower blades spun at 7200 rpm? :Q You'd get a toe caught in it and within 2 seconds your entire body would be chop suey. >>



Actually it took 12 seconds, and it was a kitten, stupid delta got stuck on the cat's spine

 

[CubicZirconia]

<< At first I had 8100rpm delta >>



What was the dba rating on that one?

 

[blade]

I think it was 54.5 dba but it sounded much louder. Ratings on fans are seldom accurate. It's one you cannot take at all unless it was in a system at a loud machine shop envirinment.


Helped cool the cpu well though. Mows my lawn better though.

 

[308nato]

I mounted one inside my entertainment center to cool my amp and DTV receiver (sony, that thing gets HOT!!!).

 

[Witchfinder]

80MM Deltas are great for cooling the Bosch-750W motors in your Robotwars or Battlebots Robot - the 60MM variants keep the speed controllers nice`n`cool - who cares about NOISE in those things ..

Deltas also would make good rotary weapon motors for sub-featherweight Robots if they weren`t banned in that class

Other castoffs preferably 120MM jobbies are great for cooling 21" monitors - these things get hot too you know

Large Class-A Hifi amps benefit from quieter castoffs

Jupiter-8 and MemoryMoog synthesizers stay happy with a 60MM YS-Tech fannin` them

Make a Delta-Charger for your motorbike`s air intake

 

[2Cool]

It works as an upgrade to my Ronco Vegematic... it slices, it dices, it juliennes!

 

[TBone202]

Suddenly I'm getting a vision of the woodchipper scene from Fargo

 

[lamga]

<< It works as an upgrade to my Ronco Vegematic... it slices, it dices, it juliennes! >>



Now that would be a modding project I'd like to see!

Here's my contributions:

Serious: Use the fan on a server in a server room. Nobody cares about noise in a server room, the whole place sounds like the inside of a vacuum cleaner already.

Fanciful: Some of you may laugh about using them to fly, but a friend of mine used similar fans to propel a miniature hovercraft for his Engineering Physics thesis project. He ran into some weight problems when installing the 16 AAA batteries, but hey.

Silly: Attach it to the exhaust on your car through a makeshift rheostat. So when your neighbourhood ricecar Civic Type R pulls up beside you at the stoplight, watch the awe in his eyes when you give that Delta a few revs with the knob on your rheostat!

 

[Jeff7]

Rig a way of making it leave the bearings - instant high speed throwing star.

Mini-robotic lawnmower.

Have it hooked up to a motion sensor outside the room - discourages lengthy visits from "unwanted guests."

Hovering computer cases.

If your car's cooling fans fail, and you've got a Delta, you're set.


Ok, ok, so those weren't really great....

 

[kursplat]

huuh?? what? can't..seem..to..hear... fans... noise..
aaaagggghhhhh...........


spining .... always spining.....