Alternates Re: <VV> Electric cooling fan results

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:17 AM 7/30/2007, Bruce Schug wrote:

>On Jul 30, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Tony Underwood wrote:
>>
>>Now, powering an electric fan hard and fast enough to adequately 
>>cool an air-cooled engine is another matter entirely.
>
>Would a small lawnmower battery like this power a fan on an autocross car?


More than likely.   If it can crank out enough power to spin a 
starter motor, it should certainly be able to spin a motor hooked to 
a fan long enough to last during an autocross, and maybe a road race...


>If you had it thermostatically controlled or a toggle switch to turn 
>the fan on and off, would this type battery run it enough to cool 
>after a run?  It could be recharged in the pits.

Hell, at less than 20 bucks a pop, you could keep several on hand as 
spares, swap 'em out.    Charge the drained ones at your 
convenience.   All you need is a good motor to spin an efficient fan.


tony..