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I cleaned mine last month! Now I don’t have to do it again for another 5 years.
Everyone point your fans at the sun, we need to move the planet away from it.
Are you trying to blow out the flame?
I think in the grand scheme of things this would only work by slowly stripping the atmosphere but I thought the plan was to use the combined reaction force part of an action-reaction pair to slowly push Earth farther away from the sun.
Sort of a decentralized propeller engine idea.
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YSK: Running your fan when you are not in the room actually warms the room. Fans don’t actually cool anything, instead they help the human body more efficiently cool itself. It also helps churn the air in the room, which might make it feel fresher depending on the situation. But it only works directly on humans, because we use evaporation to lose heat. Fans however do use a lot of power and most of that power gets turned into heat, warming the room. So when there’s nobody in the room, turn off the fan.
This obviously doesn’t apply to fans that draw or push air somewhere else. A fan in a window, with another window open opposite can be useful without anybody around. Pro tip: If you want to cool the room you’re going to be (the bedroom for example) using outside air, don’t put the fan in the window in that room. It’s much more effective to put a fan in another room blowing outside and having the window in the room you want to cool the only other open window. It draws in cool air much faster, cooling down the room. Also don’t put the fan directly in the window, fans create a column of air that gets wider with distance. If you put the fan in the window, the column doing the work is about as large as the fan, which is presumably smaller than the window. By putting the fan a bit away from the window, the column can push on the whole area of the window, improving airflow. The optimal location is usually around 1m away. depending on the fan and window.
TIL it’s more effective to put the fan ~1 m from the window
unfortunately I cannot put the fan ~1 m from the window because my apartment is cramped af :[
Circulating air to even out temperature differences can make a room far more comfortable even if it isn’t being used to actively cool. Running a ceiling fan pointing up in the winter will help when the ceilings are higher for example.
Fans however do use a lot of power
Nope. Most room fans are 75W or less, that isn’t much power and the heat generated from a fan is negligible compared to the cooling effect of moving air.
Are you a bot?
Edit: A person produces 100W of heat at rest. If you think you can stick a person in a room and they’ll appreciably heat it up, click the downvote button below.
No? Why would I be a bot?
75W is a lot of heat to be pumping out all the time. In a closed room that can heat it up a lot. Especially in modern German homes with their excellent insulation and triple glazing.
And larger fans can easily go up around 100W or more. Sure it isn’t a lot compared to a 3000W space heater. But it isn’t exactly nothing either. And given it would be running for a long time, that energy adds up.
75W is not a lot of heat. The average human produces about 100W at rest. So you’re essentially claiming:
“Putting one person in a room, at rest, will heat it up a lot.”
Sources: https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/studentdownloads/DEA3500notes/Thermal/thcondnotes.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/metabolic-heat-production
And given it would be running for a long time, that energy adds up.
Except it doesn’t because heat transfers out of a room over time, even through walls and triple glazed windows.
Time to give your receipts, bot.
It can be beneficial when combined with some other (thermostat controlled) heating or cooling.
The fan circulates air in the room, making the temperature of the air in the room more uniform, and giving the heating/cooling device’s thermostat a better sense of the room’s actual temperature.
In a room with an air conditioner and a poorly placed thermostat, a fan could be helping the room stay cooler.
Running an air conditioner when nobody is in the room? Sounds like a true American tradition
Air conditioners in the US are typically whole house and not room independent.
Then why would the fan impact the thermostat?
I run a ceiling fan over my stairs while simultaneously running the air conditioning in order to help move the cold air upstairs. The thermostat is downstairs, which isn’t impacted by the hot sun hitting the roof. It may be pleasantly cool downstairs, while it’s still unpleasantly hot in the bedrooms. The fan helps to circulate the air between floors.
Obviously this has nothing to do with running a fan in a closed room. That’s generally silly.
Ceiling fans and air conditioners are two different things. I wasn’t who you were replying to, I’m just some nimrod American who responded to your comment about air conditioners.
Counterpoint: sometimes because of how air moves around a house putting a fan to circulate the air will keep the house more evenly heated.
Source: My living room is in a circulatory dead end and air just hangs out there without a fan. (Though a low fan in the doorway is enough.)
If you turn it off, it will cool down and seize.
I just take it appart… clean the electrical contacts and oil the motor spindel with 3 and 1 oil. I have yet to figure out which capacitors that will work with these box fans when they overload and die. If you catch it before they poop out you can keep em going forever. Like a marine cleans their rifle I clean my fans. I can do it in like 10 minutes. Zip zip blam fan
https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club
Please, if you would, we dig that.
Both a welcoming invitation and savage burn at the same time. Love that community.
Can confirm. My office fan needs me to kickstart it with a pen before it rattles to life
Last time I tried to clean my old one it decided to kill itself, and I’m not sure how close I was to an electrical fire.
Isn’t that also kinda what happened to the man in the photo IRL?
Amou Haji
That was load bearing grime.
Somehow I don’t think the dying and the washing are related
He was 94, super spright. Dying at that age? Chance in a million.
Dirtiness keeps you healthy. Even though noone wants to hear that.
OCD is the issue. I have a normal standard of clean.
Is this Dwight Schrute? Would you also like hand de-sanitizing stations? A simple bowl of dirt, vomit and fecal matter at every junction?
I’m sure they have a PowerPoint ready to go explaining why just because most people died young of infections the fact that the respected elders survived in the Before Times means he doesn’t have to wear deodorant
The capcitor will poop out I think before that happens. Some have a thermal sensor aswell
Needs to be a gif where it starts shaking a tiny bit for like 30 seconds
