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Re: Fans/Propellers - Are you doing them?

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Originally Posted by Rick Wagner View Post
I'm surprised not many seem to be doing it because it is so simple to implement. Just take a spare motor and put a hobby shop propeller on it, mount the motor with a hose clamp behind a screen for safety.
It's simple, but not necessarily as effective as you might think at first.

You'd be surprised at just how much thrust a propeller system can lose when you add the safety screen. In some cases, it drops the force to less than a fourth of what it would be otherwise.
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