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Albert Gardner
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After the AZ sun heats up my glare shield, my Dynon EFIS sometimes indicates it’s overheated.
I bought a thin computer fan to install figuring it would be both a defrost fan as well as remove
heat from under the shield. It’s 12 V and has 3 wires attached: red, black, and yellow. Are any
of you computer knowledgeable enough to tell me which wire does what. I want to hook it up to
an on-off switch to 12 V.
Albert Gardner
N991RV
Yuma, AZ
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| Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject: Computer fan under glare shield |
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Albert,
As a data point I purchased an 2 ultra high velocity computer fans to act as you describes, heat removal & defrost. They had something like 3 times the airflow as normal computer fans and are a bit louder. After installing them I am surprised how much less air flow is blown through then than I expected. I can only imagine if I had used a standard fan the disappointment I would feel. I have yet to need the fans for defrost but I am glad I upgraded.
www.NewEgg.com rates them by CFM & dBA
Average Case Fan ~ 20-40 CFM $5.00
High Volume Fans ~70-90 CFM $8.00
Ultra High Volume ~100-120 CFM $10-20.00
WOW 175 CFM $35.00
Ridicules 217 CFM $42.00 (note 120 MM may be too big)
Don’t be surprised if you own 35 CFM fan.
Robin
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Subject: Computer fan under glare shield
After the AZ sun heats up my glare shield, my Dynon EFIS sometimes indicates it’s overheated.
I bought a thin computer fan to install figuring it would be both a defrost fan as well as remove
heat from under the shield. It’s 12 V and has 3 wires attached: red, black, and yellow. Are any
of you computer knowledgeable enough to tell me which wire does what. I want to hook it up to
an on-off switch to 12 V.
Albert Gardner
N991RV
Yuma, AZ
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ScooterF15
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I did the same on my glareshield. I originally installed the fan as only a defrost fan, however, last weekend I had to turn it on to keep the temperature down on my EFIS units. I connected the black wire to ground and the red wire to +12V. I switched the +12V power. I snipped and shrink wrapped the yellow wire. You can experiment with a 12V battery to confirm that is the correct wiring.
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On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Albert Gardner <ibspud(at)roadrunner.com (ibspud(at)roadrunner.com)> wrote:
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After the AZ sun heats up my glare shield, my Dynon EFIS sometimes indicates it’s overheated.
I bought a thin computer fan to install figuring it would be both a defrost fan as well as remove
heat from under the shield. It’s 12 V and has 3 wires attached: red, black, and yellow. Are any
of you computer knowledgeable enough to tell me which wire does what. I want to hook it up to
an on-off switch to 12 V.
Albert Gardner
N991RV
Yuma, AZ
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Albert,
My Dynon was doing the same thing, here in cool NorCal. Eventually it would just go black. I tried venting the top of the panel (no help), and blowing some cool air up behind the panel from the NACAs (that helped a little). Finally we put a 12V fan from McMaster (P/N 1939K39) above the Dynon, blowing down on the finned part of the case. That helped a lot. I haven't seen the problem since.
I don't use it as a defrost fan, just for cooling the Dynon. It takes cool air from one of the vent holes in the glareshield and blows it down from there.
Dave
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After the AZ sun heats up my glare shield, my Dynon EFIS sometimes indicates it’s overheated.
I bought a thin computer fan to install figuring it would be both a defrost fan as well as remove
heat from under the shield. It’s 12 V and has 3 wires attached: red, black, and yellow. Are any
of you computer knowledgeable enough to tell me which wire does what. I want to hook it up to
an on-off switch to 12 V.
Albert Gardner
N991RV
Yuma, AZ
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The yellow wire is a speed sensor from the fan. Computer system can detect if it is turning or not. You don't need it for your application.Black - Ground, Red - +12VJim CN312F - AFS EFIS and AFS Autopilot - Sweet!Do Not Archive--------------------After the AZ sun heats up my glare shield, my Dynon EFIS sometimesindicatesit's overheated.I bought a thin computer fan to install figuring it would be both adefrostfan as well as removeheat from under the shield. It's 12 V and has 3 wires attached: red,black,and yellow. Are anyof you computer knowledgeable enough to tell me which wire does what. Iwantto hook it up toan on-off switch to 12 V.Albert GardnerN991RVYuma, AZ [quote][b]
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Tim Olson
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:25 am Post subject: Computer fan under glare shield |
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I've got some higher speed 25CFM fans and they seem to do
a good job. I would think that they'd be a bare minimum
though. I've tried quite a bit lower volume fans and they didn't
work well. So I'd stick with something in the 25-125CFM range
if you can.
I actually have my glareshield fans blowing out anytime the
master is on, and it's helped me remember to turn the master
off a few times. It's nice because I get the plane all tucked
away in the hangar and I can hear if I left the switch on
or not. No fan noise, no dead battery.
Oh, and newegg.com rocks. I buy many thousands of bucks worth
of stuff there.
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD
Robin Marks wrote:
| Quote: | Albert,
As a data point I purchased an 2 ultra high velocity
computer fans to act as you describes, heat removal & defrost. They had
something like 3 times the airflow as normal computer fans and are a bit
louder. After installing them I am surprised how much less air flow is
blown through then than I expected. I can only imagine if I had used a
standard fan the disappointment I would feel. I have yet to need the
fans for defrost but I am glad I upgraded.
www.NewEgg.com <http://www.NewEgg.com> rates them by CFM & dBA
Average Case Fan ~ 20-40 CFM $5.00
High Volume Fans ~70-90 CFM $8.00
Ultra High Volume
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835705057>
~100-120 CFM $10-20.00
WOW
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835213008>
175 CFM $35.00
Ridicules
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835706019>
217 CFM $42.00 (note 120 MM may be too big)
Don’t be surprised if you own 35 CFM fan.
Robin
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*Subject:* Computer fan under glare shield
After the AZ sun heats up my glare shield, my Dynon EFIS sometimes
indicates it’s overheated.
I bought a thin computer fan to install figuring it would be both a
defrost fan as well as remove
heat from under the shield. It’s 12 V and has 3 wires attached: red,
black, and yellow. Are any
of you computer knowledgeable enough to tell me which wire does what. I
want to hook it up to
an on-off switch to 12 V.
Albert Gardner
N991RV
Yuma, AZ
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