Find me a cyber deal on centrifugal fans

[Krusty]

I'm building a vent hood for the island in my kitchen and need some centrifugal fans to push air through the duct. I'm looking to put 2 fans in there (for variable airflow), each with around 75-150cfm. In my brief searching, all I have found are fans that cost $75-$100 each.

Sooo...what else can you all find me?

[hoho220]

www.mdhydro.com Cheapest place I Know of to get one

[Krusty]

checking it out now. Also, to further clarify, I need these to be 115VAC fans

[Krusty]

Ouch, 120 bucks for a 4 inch, 172cfm fan!

It's either that or 50 bucks each for 2 squirrel cage fans.

Anybody got some other sites?

[damarble]

Have you checked localy? I would think Home Depot and the like would have something. Or a HVAC place would be a good bet.

[Krusty]

not yet. This is my preliminary work. So far, all I have done is purchased some brass sheet metal samples from onlinemetals.com. This thing is gonna be pretty!

[autolex84]

usually www.grainger.com is pretty decent, and depending on where you're located, you may be able to pick them up locally and save on shipping.

[Krusty]

Everything at grainger is a bit large. The smallest diameter they have for a fan is like 9" and like 500cfm.

Tempting though :p It would be interesting to see my steak get sucked right off of the frying pan while cooking.

[3toe]

can't you just rectify the ac and use a more common and very inexpensive dc fan.

[Krusty]

can't you just rectify the ac and use a more common and very inexpensive dc fan.

I can use a DC fan, but it still needs to be a high volume centrifugal fan. I need that pressure to push the air through the duct. Plus, if I opted for a DC fan, I would need to also put a DC power supply in the vent hood. This would be less space effecient and less power effecient.

[autolex84]

i wanna see the hover steaks!