Question about ventilation.

Gorbo

Active Member
So, I did what most people probably do. I bought an inline fan to run my carbon filter. But it was noisy so I built a sound dampening box for it out of plywood (thanks to another thread on the forum for the idea) and insulating foam and did manage to get the sound down.

But after I did all this I thought, Why can't you just buy one of the fan's you use in the bathroom and hook that up the carbon filter.
Is there a reason that no one does that?



This is the thread that gave the idea for a sound dampening box
 
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Entusia

Well-Known Member
You are correct. The bathroom ventilation fans usually are axial fans instead of centrifugal, but that isn't really a problem.
 

madvillian420

Well-Known Member
i run a bathroom fan in my closet to the attic above, no carbon filter though. giving out free smells like Jimmy Johns
 

madvillian420

Well-Known Member
the CFMs on bathroom fans are super low. the high setting on mine is around 100. id assume that has something to do with everyones choice of inlines instead. maybe the speed and volume of air going through the carbon is an element of the inlines effectiveness
 
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