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Best electric fan money can buy?

Qumanchew

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Ok, so what is the best brand of aftermarket cooling fans nowadays?

I had a Spal In my current rig and it shit the bed after only 14k miles. That was last fall. We were in Myrtle Beach on a road trip, 500 miles from home, so I shoehorned an AutoZone special in there to get home. I'd prefer to run a Taurus fan or another oem but space is very limited. Is Spal no good, or do think I just got a bum one?

I'd prefer to keep it electric. I'm running a mechanical diesel so it's hard to keep it up to temp in colder weather with a mechanical fan.
 

bfoldy

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Ok, so what is the best brand of aftermarket cooling fans nowadays?

I had a Spal In my current rig and it shit the bed after only 14k miles. That was last fall. We were in Myrtle Beach on a road trip, 500 miles from home, so I shoehorned an AutoZone special in there to get home. I'd prefer to run a Taurus fan or another oem but space is very limited. Is Spal no good, or do think I just got a bum one?

I'd prefer to keep it electric. I'm running a mechanical diesel so it's hard to keep it up to temp in colder weather with a mechanical fan.

I think Spal is probably one of the best. I don’t have as many miles as you, but mine has worked great for the last 19 years.

For OEM, as you know, the Taurus has been the go-to for many years, but I imagine those would be pretty hard to find in junkyards nowadays. It will be interesting to see the responses here.


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Yeller

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There a several brushless fans out there now that are really good, Spal makes one, but there are others. I’m with you on the OEM stuff. I too am electric fan dependent and it’s always one of my concerns.
 

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Brushless DC is what makes the power these days. Even the OEM fans are running them for most things now. They do require a controller, to convert the DC to AC power. technically they are 3-phase AC motors. They are called Brushless DC because as an electrical engineering design for how to work it into a circuit you treat it as a brushless DC motor. Which has different requirements (electrical noise) from a brushed motor. Think computers that are touchy about electrical noise on the power buss.

The nice part about the controllers is you get a way to control fan speed. Something besides all or nothing, or maybe low and high. They also move more air for a given amount of wattage, they are more efficient. No brushes to wear out, the only wear item is the bearings.

There is someone here running a nice brushless motor. I have been trying to remember what it is? I think it is a 3-letter acronym name. I just can't remember then letters.
 

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DeltaPAG 18" 4100 cfm and a custom fan shroud to cool my 393Clevor in yellow77.
 
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Thanks for the replies. That volvo one looks interesting, hadn't seen those before. As was mentioned though, it's getting harder to find the junkyard stuff anymore. It sounds like I have go down the rabbit hole on brushless fan research!
 

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