QuitCool Attic Fan
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Is the cheaper attic fan still a good choice? The latest tech in attic fans can cost up to three times the cost of the basic fan. We unbox and review and install the QuietCook basic attic fan. Its not perfect, but does it have to be?
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For the most part... This is how a review should be completed. Very informative. Thank you for taking the time... You sold me on purchasing one of these.
Thank you so much for the feedback, much appreciated. Good to hear the video helped in your decision making.
my home is literally a perfect rectangle, its about 1700 soft and is perfect for this heat mediation method, especially seeing as how it was not built into the building like most homes. I purchased two of the same kind and watt, slightly above the recommended square footage of my home. I painted my new gable on the air intake side to match the color of my home, I have done a ton of research and Im not trying to toot my own horn, but the conclusions I came to turned out to be the standard and Ive had tons of people try to argue with me about it lol. I also live in the perfect climate for this, low humidity and hot dry sunny days. I finished constructing my junction boxes last night and plan on doing the electrical work today. I will also be replacing and correcting many things done incorrectly and haphazardly. Today should be fun. Besides the fact that my home has no heat mediation built in like most, luckily for me a flow of air such as what I will be doing is by far the most affective. Ive read stories about people spending almost 100 less on energy bills after doing this. Frankly im glad I don't have those new supposed slow and arguably irrelevant methods and I can go all in and make a serious dent.
Wondering if you have an update you can share.
The old fan is a good three times louder than this new one. It still works !
Attic fans are so well worth the investment...very few disagree. Considering the difficulty in getting into the attic and mounting these fans plus the entire reason for having one which is to 1. Save air conditioning costs on the electric bill and 2. lower the attic temps. My opinion would have been to purchase the "Green" attic fan with the 3 speed ECM motor and BlueTooth for $270. This green unit has a low speed that only uses 30 watts which is skimpy on power yet will create a slight breeze in the attic to be just enough on those warm days that full speed is not justified. Not only that but the EMC motor is fit with ball bearings and because its ECM, the motor does not hum like an AC motor does, its really AC converted into DC current so the motor has almost no vibration. So, considering the installation would be the same labor, I'd go with the 3 speed unit that can be configured on your smart phone and know that you have a few more options to save on power while keeping the attic temperature reasonable.
Make sure your attic floor is sealed otherwise the fan will draw out the conditioned air in the house. Thank you for sharing.
But it's not functioning as a fan it's functioning as a heat evacuator
@@te8828That seems fairly obvious.
Have you see the world we live in? You are the first person who hasn't called me crazy for saying that. hat off to you sir for having a working brain@@Garth2011
The rough edge on the fan blades will have no effect on anything. The logo he said was damaged, was no more than a peel off piece of plastic for logo protection. A couple of paint nicks on the exterior won't be a problem. If you think it will, hit it with a blast of spray paint. After all, it's only a $100 fan. I did like the closeup of the thermostat wiring. You have to change a couple of wires, if you want it to only blow on low speed, which I am doing because it's a small attic, and it should be quieter and use less energy.
The rough edges on the blade will have some effect on noise. The purpose was to show the lack of quality control on the exterior, which makes me wonder how they were about the qc on the motor and electronics. The box notes the dual speeds but fails to mention that it involves rewiring and not just flipping a switch. Thank you for sharing your experience with the product.
@@cfldriven Yes, the "two speed" info is a bit misleading. I would pay a bit more if it just had a switch on it. Although I am hardwiring it, so not a big deal.
Im looking for a fan that has actual ball bearings. So many of these type of fans have the cheap cintered bronze bushings rather than proper bearings and they tend to seize up after a couple years if your lucky.
Don't know if this has ball bearings but itt does come with 15 year warranty. Thank you for sharing.
Bushings can last 10 years of more. Just buy, install nd move on. 15 year warranty.
@@geraldhenrickson7472 The one I pulled out was original to the 1968 house and still going. This one is a bit quieter and supposedly more energy efficient. Hoping at my age, I'm hoping it is a lifetime warranty. LOL
This fan does have a ball bearing motor
Very nice review. I am unsure so many feel compelled to criticize. You did good and the fan appears well worth the money which is what we needed to kow. Thanks
Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated.
You need two. One pulling in air from the outside and at the other end of the house have one pushing it back out.
There are so many variables to properly venting an attic that to just say every home needs two attic fans would not be prudent. In this particular home there is now a ridge event along with soffit vents thus minimizing any benefit of the attic fan.
I certainly agree with you. I just didn't convey my belief very clearly. The fact is homes that have built-in heating mitigation systems in place. If they add attic fans, it backfires and causes more problems than good with attic cooling. It really is a one option type thing and I should've said for people in my situation with older houses that have absolutely no heat. Mitigation attic fans are the best solution. Speaking they are the most effective anyway
But I'm serious dude you really do need an intake fan as well. If you don't want to take my word, a simple Google search will show you all of the experts in that field saying you might as well not even have one if you just have an exhaust fan you need airflow.
Even looking at attic fans on Lowe's and Home Depot online they specifically say in the descriptions this is only half of the heat mitigation system. You have to do both not one or the other and that's a pretty big general consensus and backed up by facts
@@te8828My advice is to measure the volume in attic, determine what the required airflow is and subtract present flow (if any) from soffits, ridge vents, fans etc. If you come up short determine how you can make up the difference. Thank you for sharing.
Did you wire at low speed or high?
Curious How does the thermostat work? 🤔
Once it comes on @ a set temperature... What temp does it automatically shut off? Thanks for video review. Personally considering this model.
Unlike an old fashion AC unit this doesn't cycle on and off every few minutes, instead the unit strives to maintain the set temp by varying the speed of the compressor. This results in a more even temperature for the occupants as opposed to the blast of cold followed by the room warming up until the next blast of cold. And much cheaper to run then the older systems.
i used my on 70 watt i love this fan
Thank you for watching and sharing your experience.
Excellent review
Thank you for the kind words.
It still sounds quieter than other fans and it takes less energy, have you tried using the low speed wire
No I just went with the default wiring to match the air exchange from the previous unit.
So on my Manuel it shows it should blow air in my attic now out . Am I mistaken ?
For a single fan you would exhaust out the air. Some attics have an intake and exhaust fan across from each other. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching and the question.
You should’ve closed off the entire gable. Basically you’re going to pull most of your air from right next to the fan and you’re just gonna recirculate it instead of pulling from the other side of the house. These videos will be helpful
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Except the fan only runs in the summer and the attic needs to vent the rest of the year so blocking one end of it would cause more issues than it solves in this situation. When it runs, standing on the driveway, you can feel the hot air being exhausted, so fan is creating enough of a negative pressure behind the fan to move the hot air out. Thank you for sharing.
Paul...you assume too much. Fluid dynamics is more complicated than that.
@@geraldhenrickson7472 Don’t forget when the fan is off there’s plenty of ventilation through the fan even though the sides are closed off. In the summer the more I can pull from the other side of the house the better. That’s why there’s only 10-15 degree difference between the attic and the outside temperature. A good experiment would be to leave it completely open for a year and measure temperature parameters and then seal it the next year and compare the two. I would be willing to bet there’s a big difference.
@@paulfrank1777 I agree with you on this. I just put one of these up and it never got any cooler without blocking the rest of the gable. Once I did so it dropped the temperature a bunch.
At 11:27 you show the product label that says built in the USA and two seconds later you say it was assembled in America as you show the manufactured label on the motor that says Assemble in Mexico.... LOL.
Thanks to the global market something can be assembled in USA with all foreign parts. I guess they actually build some of the fan, but as you saw the motor was not. I bet the parts used in Mexico came from another country. In the end what matters is the quality of the components and the quality of the build/assembly.
Watch again YuBeSlow.
@@geraldhenrickson7472 Maybe you should homer.
The die that made that blade needed to be sharpened which is why you have that burr....
Thank you for sharing that bit of knowledge. Didn't know if that was normal and QC just missed removing the burr.
@@cfldriven nope there’s a burr tolerance on stamping it was probably within tolerance but that did was due for a sharpening yours was probably towards the end of the run unfortunately
@@viper306m Sad they let it go that way instead of taking moment to remove it, but if they were saving many be not taking care of the die, why bother removing the burr.
Disappointed that they only assemble in USA. They certainly used that to suck me into buying it. Bastards, I think I wouldn’t of mounted it with the cord on top. Did you mount it upside down? Seems the cord should hang from the bottom of it because your going to have metal on metal contact were it comes through the cowling
No real up or down to it, just front and back. I chose up because it is closer to the existing power outlet.
@@cfldriven Seems to me if the thermostat is hanging right where the air is being sucked into the fan, it would not get an accurate reading of the attic temperature, but I could be wrong.
@@lordenoch0 The fan itself doesn't cool anything it just moving air. During the day the attic can get very hot and that will trigger the thermostat to start the fan. As the hot air exist the fan it is replaced by the outside air. At some point the cooler outside air will trigger the thermostat to stop the fan. The thermostat reading is accurate as it only sensing air temp in the attic. Remember the cooler air entering the attic immediately warms up because of all the radiant heat coming off the roof and structure.
@@cfldriven After reading several scholarly papers on the affect of wind on inanimate objects like a modern electronic thermometer (as opposed to an old-school mercury or "wet bulb" thermometer), I regret too inform you that you are absolutely correct. It's as simple as {Q} = 0 ={q}c(T{thermometer},T{air})+{q}r(T{thermometer},T{sky})+{q}r(T{{thermometer}},T{ground}).
@@lordenoch0 Thank you for sharing this information.
at least it is assembled in USA not other country. so some money back to our workers pocket. Everything made in USA will be too expensive not everyone in US can buy it.
Actually surprised they still assembly in the US, but glad they do.
whats the cfm for high speed and cfm on low speed?
On the AC green model
Low 1330cfm 22 watts
Med 2000 cfm 67watts
High 2800 cfm 147 watts
how i wired to a low speed
By default it comes set to high speed to change it to low speed you need to tie the red wire from the fan to one of the black wires from the thermostat. Place a wirenut over the black wire from the fan. Thanks for watching.
Buy the green model, it has 3 speeds, that you cange with you phone
Mark, the nice thing about an attic fan is it comes on automatically and runs until the attic temp falls below a set level. I don't see the advantage to controlling the fan speed under normal use. What do you see as the advantage? Thanks you for sharing.
@cfldriven the advantage is you are able to get the attic cooler much quicker, therefore getting the core of the house colder
@@markchristensen5206 Can it be program to start on hi and ramp down to a lower speed?
@cfldriven that's the beauty of the QC green models 3 speeds, each can have its own temperature setting, when temperatures rise to the next setting the fan speed adjust automatically up and down
I set it start at 90° low
105° med
120° high
I then change the low speed temperature to 65°, so it cools the core of the attic, during the night
It's an attic fan. sheesh !
Be careful opinions on attic fans vary widely and are defended with vigor. Thank you for watching.
@cfldriven QuietCool is a great fan. Better than the crap you buy in the box stores. And yes, that's MY opinion.