Dear god... what have I done...?

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[esunisen]

Next step: put together enough fans to lift Phil.

[thebkg]

Pure example of what happens when men get bored. 😂🤣

[aaronw]

I feel like there's probably an inventory manager at Micro Center wondering why be quiet! only shipped 4 fans instead of the case that was ordered.

[davidellis]

This is when you are at your best, having a laugh, showing your silly side, doing stupid things, just because you can. Love it

[DTMAce]

I built a vertical window fan for my office this year. 6x 120mm Dell Clamshell PWM CPU case fans. Yeah, the ones that pull like 1.5A at full speed. I bought a cheap PWM controller off of Amazon that can run up to 8 fans. Plugged in these 6, wired it to an old AT PSU. Bam. Can easily change the speed with a knob, and when you crank 6 of these up, stuff blows around in the office. They are stacked vertical in a 3ftx3ft horizontal sliding window. Installed metal grilles on the fans, cut some custom simple wood supports to fasten the fans to, and its fitted to be inserted directly between the sliding window and the frame. Works perfectly and moves a LOT of air! lol Nice to see some one build a "box" fan out of fans! Good job! lol

[Traumbrecher]

Hah, this video brings back great memories from a warehouse job I had in college back in 2007-2009. We built a bunch of cookie cutter systems for a client that was using them as dual POS / virtual slot machine game units to install in gas stations and whatnot. The basic cheapo cases they specced out each came with a generic, no-name brand 80mm rear exhaust fan, but they wanted us to remove that 80mm fan and put a larger fan in instead. So, naturally, we ended up with boxes and boxes full of these brand new 80mm fans just sitting around doing nothing and we weren't tossing them in the trash, either. The warehouse we worked in had A/C, but it was a bit of an undersized unit for the square footage and couldn't really keep up in the summer (Texas heat), especially when we had to leave the dock bay doors open for trucks picking up/delivering. So, I and another burn-in/QC tester got creative and took a few spare laptop power bricks we had laying around (can't remember why we even had them, but they didn't go to anything we had on-hand anymore) and those boxes full of 80mm fans. We started zip-tying the fans together in a grid just like your setup here (but without fancy 3D printed parts, no screws), stripped the ends off all the positive and ground cables of each fan, twisted all the positive wires into one mass, same for the grounds in another mass, then hacked off the end of the laptop power brick cables and stripped them so we had power and ground leads separated. We worked out the math of how many fans each power brick could support based on watts and amperage (because bear in mind, we were NOT using any PWM control, so we had to actually size each fan-wall to the limit of the power brick or it would magic-smoke all the fans from pumping too much power through them, as we learned on the first attempt - and too many fans would just result in the fans not turning because we overloaded the power brick). Then, we connected everything and hung the fan-walls from our burn-in racks with zip-ties (we had ~10 total racks with KVM setups in a large semi-circle that would burn in 20 machines per rack at full bore, all dumping their heat right at us standing behind the racks). Each rack had 2 fan-walls hung from them, one of the left side, one on the right side. Those zip-tie fan-walls made a HUGE difference in our comfort level to keep working fast and not die sweating all day long. While the receiving and assembly line guys were dying in the heat, we (burn-in/QC) were chilling lol.

[EDVZR]

Jay's Fan was Probably Still Cheaper than a Dyson Fan.
Or possibly about the same price.

[sirabdude]

No lie the fact that this is infinitely quieter than a box fan and just kinda goofy makes me kinda wanna build one

[EyeamEJ]

Now 3D print 12 of the Noctua airflow amplifiers

[rahorin]

BeQuiet - "What the heck is he doing with our fans?!!"

[Colin_Drawz]

I wanna see Jay build an entire case, fully functional, out of various fans. The optimal air flow case. And yes it should be water cooled just for the spite

[xerowolf]

Be Quiet thought that by sending you a whole box of fans that you would wind up using them in multiple videos across many meaningful computer builds but instead you just used them all in one single meaningless build in a single video. I love it!

[TheRogueWolf]

Who else expected to see a cut to Jay actually trying to replace the glass panel with his Wall O' Fans?

[FrkThs]

8 years ago, I had this in the office on the table to cool myself, as the AC wasn´t enough...
But I had it powered with wall wart from external HDD and DIY 555-timer to generate PWM for speed regulation without having to connect it to internal headers.
Good times.

Today I was testing my Delta server fans, got 4, each 50W, 24V 2, 4A 140mm beasts with 250CFM on max. External Meanwell 24V PSU, using internal PC headers for PWM and speed readings. Once I get my Octo, I will control it through Aquasuite via curve depending on the air temp above my desk.
On 900rpm one Delta pushes just as much as my 6 Arctic P12´s together...

[AlexanderNielsen.]

You should 3d print the NV-AA1-12 Airflow Amplifiers for each of them as well, just because.

[Kemulnitestryker]

Did a similar thing many years ago with a coworker. When we zip tied our twelve PC cooling fans to our ceiling vent and turned it one, we turned our office into a fogbank.

[Makerr]

Gotta say, I'm a huge fan of this kind of content. I was really blown away with how well these worked.

[bzdtemp]

This concept also works well with cheaper fans, it is not silent but also no worse than a classic desk fan.
I made something similar last summer, however as I don't have a 3D printer I used strips to tie the fans together and build a base in Lego.
My setup is a 3 wide and 4 tall arrangement with 80mm fans. The fans are just the cheapest RGB ones I could find on a Chinese webshop, they came with a rpm+RGB controller and remotes and as the controllers only handles max 8 fans my setup has the 12 fans split between two controllers. And for power I simply made an extension cable to a internal power cable in my PC, only downside is that this means the fans only run when the PC is on.

[blahorgaslisk]

Back in the late eighties a coworker did something like that using a glut of computer fans. There were no real 3D printing widely distributed if at all back then so he used wires to tie them together. I remember that it worked, but those fans were far from quiet so they made a decent noise when all were running at speed. I think he ended up running them at 7 V to get something that worked decently at a volume that was acceptable.

[ShadowArabesque]

People in Las Vegas and Phoenix: “110f??, that sounds like amazing picnic weather”. But no joke 110f is bad, stay hydrated