Destroyed my YS Ttch 48 with a finger.

[elkinm]

I excidently put a finger in between the blades of my YS Tech 48 cfm 80 mm fan and broke off some of the fins. I tried suergloing it and it works but the fins easily break.

I was wondering how normal is this and if there is a good way to grue them back on.

And also now I need a new med power 80 mm fan. What would you say would be the most poerfull but reasonably quiet and inexpensive fan. As far as noise and power goes my YS was fine but I would like something more poerfull in possible with equal or less noise and maybee even cheaper.

Thanks
elkinm

 

[Evadman]

better the fan than slicing off your finger.

 

[elkinm]

Thanks,

The best I have seen so far is the sunnon 50 cfm fan for 7.50 at casemods but it is expensive and suposebly noisier at 40 db.

 

[Peter D]

:Q...

why on earth would you stick your finger in your fan???

 

[MDE]

Fingers in fans are just about one of the first things you think to yourself and say, "Gee, it might hurt if I stick my finger in there." Not trying to be assclown but geez, that's dumb.

 

[ethebubbeth]

yeah be more careful getting buzzed by a high rpm fan is never fun. worst was when a panaflo 120mm h1a got me though (38mm thick!)... that hurt like FSCK

 

[elkinm]

I was trying to position it is a specific spot so I put it where I wanted it, trned it on and it fell on my hands and I hear a sound and when I turn it off I see missing fins. I've been hit quite a few tiems. Depending on the side the fins usualy stop instantly or slow to a stop, never anything close to braking though.

 

[0roo0roo]

ys techs are cheap, you get what you pay for superglue might work, but i'm surprised your finger didn't get cut...i guess the blades were rather shoddy.

 

[elkinm]

Anyway, I still need a replacement though. Any good cheap fans comparable to mine ore the Sunnon 50.2 cfm fan?

Thanks

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
:Q...

why on earth would you stick your finger in your fan???

Why wouldn't you?

 

[xSauronx]

idea!

next time, do what i do...REMOVE POWER FROM THE FAN before moving it

not being an ass, but appearently that didnt occur to you as being the best idea.

 

[Richdog]

I'll answer your question since everyone else just wants to smugly and annoyingly tell you how to avoid cutting your finger AFTER you've done it... isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? Anyway, i'd get the YS-TECH adjustable fan, it has a knob on it with which to manually control the fan RPM so you can have it as quiet or as loud as you like. The build quality on this particular fan is good too, just don't go sticking anything small, pink and fleshy into it... :beer:

 

[Saurk]

Geez, what's with the condescending comments in this thread? It's a simple mistake, happens all the time. Get over yourselves.

I nicked a finger on a 120mm delta once. Didn't break anything on the fan, and to my surprise it didn't hurt either. Made me jump, though.

I found the following link useful for my case fan purchases: http://www.shilmar.com/downloads/fanspecs.xls

Its an excel spreadsheet with 120 or so fans, mostly designed to help you figure out how to reduce noise. But it's also rather useful as an estimate for CFM based on number of fans, fan size and placement (front and back). Not sure of its accuracy, but interesting to check out nonetheless.

Edit:
Oh, and it also shows the effect of undervolting the fan. Has columns for 12, 7 and 5V. Someone had to have spent a lot of time getting this data.

 

[elkinm]

I've been looking for this fan but I cannot find it for under $8. For that I would prefer to get the Sunon. SVC used to have them, or the normal version for $3-4. Is there any place I can get it cheap?

Thanks

 

[Red Squirrel]

They don't sell fan grills anywhere I live, and I can't find any on all my suppliers, so here I was installing this huge 120mm fan on the side panel of my case. When I was installing it I accidentally put my figer in it and it broke blades off and they went flying inside the case, two of them, and two in a row, so I could not just break off the opposite one to keep it equal, I was screwed. Thank fully I had another one in stock, but man was I pist, 10 bucks wasted!

But at least fans break, and not our finger, when that happends.

Now I have this switch in front of my computer, so when I remove that panel, I turn it off. I also made myself a cardboard blade out of the box the fan was in (talk about good recycling measures). It's ghetto to the max, but it will help avoid this again. As long as my cat does not get her tail in it or anything. It would probably hurt the cat in this case unlike my finger, that it just scarred the crap out of me from the very fast and sudden movement.

CPU fans are the worse for that though. I can't count how many times I got my finger caught in one, scares the crap out of me every time lol.

My ghetto setup can be seen on my site, you can come and laugh with me.

As for a good 80mm fan, I find the best ones are the typical cheap startech ones, very quiet, and they still push quite a bit of air, around 30cfm.