canopy fan

[bigdscobra]

I have a fan for the canopy and want to put in the top of canopy it is about 6in in diameter.


What would give the best results?

Blowing fresh air in or sucking the hot air outwards???? :wacko

[NaCl_H2O]

Canopy fans should blow air out ... otherwise they suck ;)

[bigdscobra]

So 2 votes for pulling air out of the canopy


Anybody else???

[JimD]

Do you have any other fans used for cooling? If not, my vote would be blowing in for evaporative cooling.

[dan]

i would say takeing the hot air out. put vents on the sides and fan on top or side to side. one side vent and other side fan pulling air out.

[::pete::]

Blowing cool air across the water!

[CD]

Blowing cool air across the water!

That gets my vote too. If you have some vent holes in the top of the canopy, the warm air will be pushed out (heat rises). I also read somewhere (I'm thinking it was RC?) that someone had problems with salt creep getting into the mechanism of their fans when they had it set up to pull the air out. As JimD said, evaporative cooling is the whole point, and you will get more evap. with the fans blowing across the water.

W. :)

[::pete::]

As Wendy said the salt in the air going across the fans will shorten the fans life.