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Old 05-03-2004, 03:42 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by naturall_mystic
In other words have your fan sucking or pulling the air, not blowing or pushing the air.
Wha ... who came up with this rule? Maybe it's better for the carbon filter to not have the blown air concentrated on one spot, as you might get with a small fan pointed at a large filter, but whose idea was it that fans do better sucking than blowing?

In any event, such a rule, if true, is going to depend strongly on the type of fan - blade geometry and what not.

If you're going to be using ducts or a carbon filter, use a bathroom exhaust fan, or an inline fan, as long as it's a centrifugal fan. People have rightly observed that computer fans can't pull squat through a carbon filter; the same holds true for most propellor fans. Computer fans are fine as long as you're exhausting directly to the room and the intake is quite clear or has a similar fan on it as well.
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