ram

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got a couple of spal style fans and wanted to run one as a blower on my rad and one as a sucker on my front mount, is it as simple as swapping the pos and neg over to reverse the direction of fans?

thanks

escort_matt

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yeh m8 i do belive so

mercury grey minter

As above yes.I put spals on mine and connected them the wrong way,sucking not blowing.Engine started to over heat.A quick change round on the pos + neg and it was all sorted.

muz

Yep. Simple as that in theory. Fans do have the blade angled a certain way though, so if they are sucker fans, and you swap the terminals to make them blowers the blades wont be as good as a proper blower fan but will do that same thing.

tiff_lee

Just make sure the blower is mounted bumper side and the sucker engine side.

ram

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cool. thanks for the replies guys

tiff lee - thanks mate but dont worry mate i ent that simple lol

Chip

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Yep, far less efficient when spinning the wrong way.

ram

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hhmmm sadly cant fit it on the bayside of rad to suck cuz ive got no room. just looked at the fan and the blades are quite angled, which isnt what i wanted to see. guess il just have to see how it pans out.

im sure the answer is no or not much, but...will the sucker on the inside of the front mount push a fair bit of air out as its sucking and pass some cold air onto the right hand side of my rad which doesnt have a fan on, thus making it like i have one and a quarter fans on my rad theyre quite close together which is why i ask

tiff_lee

lol sorry dude didn't mean to sound as if I was patronising you, it's just well i've seen it happen sucking hot air out through the rad lol

orion_crazy_carl

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i dont think spal ones go both ways like kenlows do

ram

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tiff lee - lol if he was a mate i hope you gave him a slap

orion crazy carl - i just said spal as in spal style slim line ones. theyre no names. im guessing your saying they might not work as blowers because of the angle on the fan blades?

orion_crazy_carl

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oh sorry mate, didnt see tht bit
yeah its all about the angles, U will soon know if it wont work as there will be very little air coming from it,

ram

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just had a play with one of the fans and ive been able to fip the blade unit over so that the blades are shaped the correct way to blow. then just need to swap the pos and neg over and ive reversed it all properly to be a blower.
had to file abit off the front guard as the blades were catching, so should be all good now