<VV> Electric cooling fan results

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

At full speed, it takes 27 HP. Still, your typical automotive electrical  
system can only generate about 1, MAYBE 2 HP at best, and that's if it's not  
running ANYTHING ELSE!!
 
In a message dated 7/29/2007 10:40:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mhicks130 at cox.net writes:

Although  I'm on the side of "the electric fan probably isn't going to 
work"crowd, I do  think it's not necessarily correct to say the electric fan will 
need 14hp  worth of electricity.  The engine driven fan uses that much hp at 
full  throttle but it had to be sized to provide enough cooling air at low engine 
 speeds.  It's probably making too much at full speed.  So maybe,  just 
maybe, a cooling optimized fan would need less than 14 hp to keep things  cool 
enough.  Maybe, I don't know.

mikeH


 



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