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Guys everything has been sorted, thanks jabtek.
It turns out i recieved a bad batch of the yate loons originally. had i known this before hand this post woulda never EVER been created, its obvious that this problem has been fixed at yate loon and that the smaller motor has NO side effects to the quality of the fan.
OK guys, some of you may know the knock off yate loon scandal or what ever you wanna call it. Basically it revolved around certain vendors carrying cheap knock off yate loons.
That aside i have come upon a new fold in the yate loon story...
A coupla months ago i bought 3 open cornered D12SL-12's they have the new "curved" style blade design. I was very disapointed when i got them as they had an absolute HORRID motor clicking noise, so i never used them. Well today i got a lil bored and thought to myself, well i have 2 straight blade style yates in my main rig, i could take the fan blade assembly off the crappy motor curved bladed yates and pop em on my original yates and have the best of both worlds.... a QUIET motor with a more efficient blade design.
This is what i found...
Curved bladed fan assembly on left, old straight blade on the right... notice n e thing different besides the blades?
OK heres another hint...
the open corner models have 80mm size motors in them.
Yes thats right 80mm size motor hubs.... 80mm fan blade assembly courtesy of an 80mm sleve bearing fan made by icute.
SPINNING!!!!
These are just my findings, i cant say anything about closed corner curved bladed D12SL-12's but i wont be buying any more open cornered ones thats for sure.
If any of you guys have closed corner curved bladed yates, and are willing to take them apart really quick snap a coupla pictures of the hub size... the 80mm size motor is just under an inch in diameter... the legit 120mm sized motor is 1.25inches.
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