ventilation fan vibration isolation help needed


I will be putting two exhaust and one injection fan in my cabinet to properly move air. Two will be mounted horizontally and one veritically. The trick is that I work so hard to get the cabinet isolated from vibrations that by adding a fan, I'm added micro vibs to the cabinet. The fans are 4" radio shack fans running at 6 volts instead of 12volts in order to slow them down and reduce noise yet still move air. I was planning on using placing a sorbothane grammet (if I can find some) around the screw that is screwed into the cabinet and it would hold the fan about 2mm off the cabinet. Any other suggestions. I want to keept it simple but yet very effective. Thanks Troy
troy_noel

Showing 1 response by nsgarch

Isolation techniques are all well and good, but how about using some really good fans to start with (i.e. not RS crap)? I recommend Pabst, the original "whisper fan" they're so quiet and vibration free you won't even know they're there. It sounds like you already put in a lot of time and effort, so don't "cheap out" now!

http://www.ebmpapst.us/

There are many suppliers. Type:

pabst fans

into Google search.
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