siskiou Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Just a quick question: if you have one fan in the side of the hood (back open), is it preferable to have to pull cool air in or warm air out? This is for a mh pendant hanging in the hood, plus two 24" vho bulbs. Am working on getting the 60G cube set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I am not sure but would think that cold air coming in would be better. Kind of like people using fans over there tank between the light and the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Air in. If you pull air out you'll be drawing moist, salty air through the fan which will destroy it in no time. -Sol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siskiou Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Thanks to both of you! Makes sense about the salty air wreaking havoc on the fan. Air in it will be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 If you don't have one yet the SilenX fans are the bomb diggity! Way quieter then any other an I have ever owned. They even have ones with LED lights ( I don't have that one but they look quite cool, I kinda want one, O.K. I want 2). I setup my entire 30g to be as quiet as possible. I did kind of to good of a job, 3 feet away I have to look over to see the tank is running. It's a good thing, but . . . white noise is cool too. Anyhoo the SilenX produce great air flow and are virtually silent. I'd recommend it. Back to the topic, all my fans take the hot air and point it out. I bought one of the those Sunpaq light fixtures 8 years or so ago and it was setup like that so that's what I always did. Never had a fan quit. JME HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siskiou Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 A silent fan! Thanks for the hint! I'll have to live with this noisy one for a while, but will check into it once I have some $$ left over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Those SilenX fans look good! I'm going to keep them in mind when i build my canopy http://www.silenx.com/ixtremaproledfans.asp?sku=ixp-74-14l Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siskiou Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 Weird! When I click on that link to get to the website for the fans, I am asked for a password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronjunior Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Here's a large local supplier I buy my pc accessories from. They have tons of fans and decibles are listed on each product. Their prices are excellent and great CS. I didn't see the silentx there, but tons of led options. Went in last week after a year and the owner still remembered my name. I don't know what shipping is, but couldn't imagine they're unreasonable. http://www.nwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.showGroup&GroupID=20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I picked up the fan and power supply at Waves. It's not the LED one so I can't vouch for there noise level but I'm pretty stoked on the one I got. My new canopy has openings on the top so I thought of installing the fans pointing up and using the LED's as moonlights. Haven't tried it so really don't know if it would work, but it's worth a shot. I'll report back when I get around to seeing how it works. I have to rework my rock on that tank for the CL first. Then I'll get to the fans. Only so much time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I picked up the fan and power supply at Waves. It's not the LED one so I can't vouch for there noise level but I'm pretty stoked on the one I got. My new canopy has openings on the top so I thought of installing the fans pointing up and using the LED's as moonlights. Haven't tried it so really don't know if it would work, but it's worth a shot. I'll report back when I get around to seeing how it works. I have to rework my rock on that tank for the CL first. Then I'll get to the fans. Only so much time. Please let us know how it goes. I am considering installing fans that way too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVES Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 ya ive been carrying Silenx for a while now, Ive been very very happy with them. I have never had any not work, be noisy or anything. The 4" models move 72 CFM at 14db, its UNTOUCHABLE by any other fan. If you hold this fan at arms length, you simply cant hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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