THE VIDEO SHELF · fan placement and airflow
Best fan placement to move air through the house
Matthias Wandel uses anemometer measurements to find where to place a fan to move the most air through a house at night. He finds that placing the fan some distance back from the window works better.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in cooling and fan-noise threads as a short video with actual data on fan placement.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Matthias random stuff
- Topic
- fan placement and airflow
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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Matthias Wandel made a great video showing how it's better to place the fan a meter or two away from the window to get more air flow [VIDEO]
samldev on Hacker News · 2023-07
In Cooking Air QualityMatthias tries a few options and evaluates them– [VIDEO] > Experiments and anemometer measurements to figure out where to best place a fan to optimally air out the house to cool it down at night.
spearo77 on Hacker News · 2021-07
In Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (2014) [pdf][VIDEO] Matthias has an interesting video that is tangentially related talking about the distance of a fan to a window and air flow. While watching I was wondering how this interacts with PC case fans and if they are losing a lot of performance by …
nemacol on Hacker News · 2022-09
In Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (2011)
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