Vortex Speed Controller?

[HighTillDeath]

Has anyone bought one of those Fan speed controllers and tried to dial down a 6 inch vortex? Mine sounds like a turbo and way to loud so I ordered one, Just wondering if it helps alot?

 

[somebody041]

i use one on my 8" vortex to reduce the efficiency of my air cooled lights so my room stays warm enough. i haven't had any problems with it.

 

[OrganicOzarks]

I have , and they do help out the sound a bit on my 6" fans. However it works much better to insulate the fan itself. I just use regular fiberglass house insulation and wrap it around and Gorilla Tape it. I have seen people build a wooden box, insert the fan, and then fill the box with spray foam. The one thing you need to worry about with that is you can crush the fan when the foam expands. You also need to use insulated ducting. After insulating my fan I found that most of my noise was actually coming from the non-insulated ducting. After I traded it out for insulated ducting you can barely here shit now. When you put all of those things together my shit is Stealth Ninja quiet. I do also insulate the walls and doors to help with sound as well.

 

[HIGHGROOVE]

yeah well i used a speedster speed controller on my can fan max and after 5 months it killed it then got another can fan max and within a few days it was dead.......so now i run without the speedcontroller and the fans fine yeah its overkill for me but i have no choice

 

[Che]

I use a CanArm fan speed controller on a 6" Vortex and it works mint!

 

[ilovethewest]

its insulation that you want, but this is a nice thing to have. insulated duct brought my perceived noise down about 25%. speed controller dies not affect sound that much, but it does do a little. worth $20.

 

[HappyDog]

A rheostat (spell check) will decrease voltage and cause the appliance, fan in your case, to run hot until it burns itself out or the outlet.
Insulate.

 

[Mr. Stinky]

people burn their houses down doin dumb stuff like putting a dimmer on an electric motor. please dont do that. if you need to slow the fan, buy a speed control, not a dimmer.

leave the fan do its thing, and insulat the vibration and air wave sounds.

 

[AKDrifter]

I have a 4" Vortex cooling my 600 right now. I have it wrapped in home insulation and stuffed into a cardboard box, all dead space filled with insulation and taped up tight. I added two 6" long sections of rigid ducting so they extend about 2" past the outside of the box for connecting to duct. This cut the noise by 1/3 easy. The speed control and insulated duct, as said above are the ticket. Also, the box is suspended by two bungee coards, the hooks just punched into the top corners of the box(toward the center,lengthwise).

I ran this exact set up on my 6" vortex on my last area with the same results. I would say these three steps will kill about 75% of your noise give or take. That 6" moves some air! I had to time it down this run for stealth.

The woosh of air through uninsulated duct is very noisy, that insulated stuff is excellent.

 

[OPT]

I just received a 4 inch 195 cfm fan for my grow tent. I too have the problem of it running full speed. Though, once you hook the ducting up to it, it kills ALOT of the noise but...I'm afraid that I will be pulling air through my carbon filter too fast.

Where can i get a speed controller for this type of fan?

I checked lowes' and they dont have shit, but dimmers, and not dimmers for fans.

Any recommendations..or maybe a pic or link?

OPT

 

[OPT]

Think I found something that will work well, it's made for these specific types of fans.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Speed-Controlle...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5d26fa3261

OPT

 

[zeonet409]

I have 4 Vortech Tornados, i had to stop using them because they were so loud, You can always use single controllers from radio shack or just use the ones that come with CPU fans

 

[ilovethewest]

i currently running the controller OPT posted. i paid $20. while testing the room i thought it was a piece of shit, at half speed the fan makes a nasty noise, but now that my vortex is hooked up to insulated ducting it is useful. i dont need the fan to run on full power at all, i can touch any part of the hood and be fine. there are some controllers that cost about 100 that work in the way yall want them to, they actually regulate the power that goes into the fan, unlike the cheap controllers that folks here are talking about, and like the one i currently run. dont know what these expensive controllers are called, but it was on here that i was reading about it.

 

[AKDrifter]

businesslights.com was the best price on Vortex fans and the variable speed controls that I found

 

[Mr. Stinky]

they also have a sister company called plantlightinghydroponics. same business, just 2 names. they are 20% cheaper than everyone else. dont know how thye do it, but they do.