the trojan fan (media.piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You're basically trading energy to move higher volume of air. The fan can move smaller amount of air at higher speed, but larger amount at a gentle breeze feels nicer and helps with circulating the air in the room better.

You could achieve it by taking that exact motor and slapping a bigger fan onto it, but that looks less cool and probably produces more noise? Maybe there's some efficiency differences if the motor is better at spinning fast, but as a spherical cow in vacuum it should be similar.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I would counter that a small fan spinning at high rpm makes more (annoying) noise than a large fan spinning at a lower rpm.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    So it's like a lever, you aren't just magically getting more volume at the same speed without more power, it just slows down when interacting with the outside air, ie conservation of momentum

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