2/11/2021 UPDATE! Just reordered another S7 pair of fans! Andy, I have never met you, but I sure like these quiet fans and continue to recommend these!
I have three of these fans in a media closet that is about the size of a tall refrigerator. Inside on shelves I have a high-powered AV receiver, a BluRay player, a Cable TV DVR, and other stuff that is producing an amazing amount of heat. When we built the house the wife wanted all AV equipment hidden, and as an Audiophile I wanted to be able to see what I want to see and hear what I want to hear in the Home theater seating area, but without any extraneous noise.
Solution: I bought this item, and set two fans on top of the AV Receiver and a third identical fan on top of the cable box/DVR. Closed the door and waited an hour. Heat load dropped in half. I did not want to just move a hot air around in this large closet, so there is a passive vent installed in the sealing of the closet …. just a simple louvered floor vent like people have in their homes for floor heat. I just waited until the wife unit was out of the house and used one of her good steak knives to saw a hole in the drywall ceiling a drop this Lower cheap floor vent in:) Vacuum the mess up and done. These fans have been running flawlessly for two years now – and my wife, who could hear a mouse fart, has never noticed them.
Quality/overall impression: Frankly, I thought these were two cheap to be really durable, but I bought them because at the time they were one of the few USB fan setups with a speed controller, no fan-boi disco light show LEDs, and with a CEC rating. The fans are very quiet, well-made, and have nice rubber anti-vibration feet.
I was nervous about leaving cheap fans on 24-7 because the last thing I want to do is have a house fire because the units were wired up by orphaned slave labor recruited from a deplorable third world slum. But those fears were immediately put out of mind when I opened the box upon receipt. Beautiful packing, high quality wiring and fan construction.
I am back on their site today reordering a second set to place on my desktop next to my computer workstation. I have a couple of good friends who work designing high end consumer electronics – the really pricy stuff. Both techs told me that placing a good quality cooling fan on an AV receiver can add several years working lifetime to such units.
Therefore, I highly recommend these AC Infinity products. Just buy the dual fan setup, set the speed controller wherever you are comfortable and forget about them! (slower is a little quieter, but even on high these were very acceptable for my application) And like I said, I am back today repurchasing another set, which I should have done long ago:) Heat kills electronics. And if you are checking out cooling fans, you already know that stereos, AV equipment and computer gear can generate enough heat to slowly nuke your gear…
Next possible project for these…. We have a couple of large walk in closets, which we keep the doors closed on because our ever-curious weenie dogs like to curl up in when we are not home. Anyway, I put the old computer fans, which were too noisy, in the closets to keep the air circulating and not smelling musty when we have been gone for awhile. One of these small fans would be much quieter, and would be strong enough to push all the air it needs to under the closet door to keep things smelling fresh in there – even after we have returned from a couple weeks vacation.
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