Silent 12v fan for airflow under drivers seat...

[snoop6060]

Is this needed?

I have a leisure battery, ctek dual, jl audio amp and a fuse box under my driver's seat. All cabled as neatly as possible but it's tight and the amp is running warm. Airflow is restricted a fair bit due to the various mounting brackets I have under there. I work in datacentres and if I know one thing it's things fail when they get too hot.

So worth mounting an ignition controlled silent computer fan on the seat base to help when the ctek is charging the battery? Really easy to do I would think. Or am I worrying over nothing?

Cheers
Si

 

[T6 Dave]

It could also be used to distribute cool air to the back in the heat.. Just use a computer fan, and if wanted, a fan speed controller, could even use a temp probe for auto speed if you want to be flashy.. Lol

Data centres.. Yeah, VAX computers (mainframes and micro.. ) here..

 

[snoop6060]

Vax, retro like it. I actually don't step inside the datacenters much these days, tends to be remote which is nice.

I actually have spare temp probes from an automated brewing setup I built (brewpi) so may well do that. Another arduino project perhaps, which is sat spare since I got a spark. Mind you the project list has got a bit big since I got the van

 

[snoop6060]

Ok, £5 later and about 25mins effort I have a temperature sensitive fan that's pretty silent and aims to not allow the seat base to go above 38c (fan goes full belt if the temp gets to 35c right next to to the amp and it doesn't spin at normal ambient temps ~20c) Quite how effective this will be I don't know. It's on a temporary mount for now. If its effective and doesn't annoy me I'll cut a hole in the seat base cover and mount it proper