Results: Airflow w/o obstacles
Every SilverStone Air Penetrator series fan includes an aerodynamic grille on the exhaust. This is firmly attached to the frame, but can be forcibly removed. The AP123 fan has gone through such a process and we will demonstrate the benefits of this grille. Whether it is good or bad cannot be noted briefly, but the way SilverStone communicates it to the public is again a bit unfortunate and misleading.
Results: Airflow w/o obstacles
Why is there a missing value sometimes? There may be more reasons. Usually it is because the fan could not be adjusted to the target noise level. Some have a higher minimum speed (or the speed is low, but the motor is too noisy) or it is a slower fan that will not reach the higher decibels. But the results in the graphs are also missing if the rotor is brushing against the nylon filter mesh. In that case, we evaluate this combination as incompatible. And zero in the graphs is naturally also in situations where we measure 0.00. This is a common occurrence at extremely low speeds with obstructions or within vibration measurements.
Continue: Results: Static pressure w/o obstacles
- Contents
- Analysis of the SilverStone aerodynamic grille
- The basis of the methodology, the wind tunnel
- Static pressure measurement…
- … and airflow
- Results: Airflow w/o obstacles
- Results: Static pressure w/o obstacles
- Results: Frequency response of sound w/o obstacles
- Conclusion
