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Other Equipment & Products / Re: Filter advice please on home made fume extractor
« Last post by shabaz on Today at 09:55:08 pm »I used 120mm fans (since I had a load of them) and had to use 4 of them I think, to work through that filter!). A larger filter and different (and larger fan) topology for that sounds very sensible.
Also you're right on the noise (I was hoping to put it under the desk with just the ingress hose exposed, but it's still unnecessary sound that could be solved by better design). Also needed a soft-start (I used extremely crude series resistors shorted out by MOSFET delayed by RC circuit) since the fans have so much demand on start-up. I definitely would scale it up and do things differently if I were to do it again.
Also you're right on the noise (I was hoping to put it under the desk with just the ingress hose exposed, but it's still unnecessary sound that could be solved by better design). Also needed a soft-start (I used extremely crude series resistors shorted out by MOSFET delayed by RC circuit) since the fans have so much demand on start-up. I definitely would scale it up and do things differently if I were to do it again.