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MEXICOWANDERER
Jun 10, 2018Explorer
If someone would get off their fat butt and introduce a brushless motor fan with ball bearings packed with synthetic grease, it would be a godsend. Fantastic Fan as well as everything else I've seen use absolutely krappy switches. Small Niehoff brushless alternators can typically last (mechanically) 400,000 miles. My bus Niehoff may go a million miles with no mechanical problems.
Ball bearings, properly supported in a pier framework can withstand out of balance (blades) so badly biased it would have a fan hopping across the floor.
Yet the Japanese manufacturers of the Fantastic fan motor charge sixty dollars retail for a oilite bushing motor that has brushes.
Why am I sensitive about this?
If I had better access to internet searches I would find a 12vdc complete fan with no brushes, ball bearings, that consumes less than 4 amps at 300 cfm. Not sounding like a Sikorsky in-heat would be a plus, too.
Ball bearings, properly supported in a pier framework can withstand out of balance (blades) so badly biased it would have a fan hopping across the floor.
Yet the Japanese manufacturers of the Fantastic fan motor charge sixty dollars retail for a oilite bushing motor that has brushes.
Why am I sensitive about this?
- I live where fans stay on 24/7/365/decades
- Nippondenso motors come in boxes marked Made In Japan
- THREE HUNDRED PERCENT TAX!!!
- Shipping from the USA is NINETY DOLLARS
- A new fan purchased in Mexico costs one hundred nine dollars PLUS sixteen percent tax PLUS thirty one dollars to ship.
If I had better access to internet searches I would find a 12vdc complete fan with no brushes, ball bearings, that consumes less than 4 amps at 300 cfm. Not sounding like a Sikorsky in-heat would be a plus, too.
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