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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?
Thread title should read, do not swap round fan blades with straight fan blades as the bearing is a different size (and thus motor too). Also consider the fans were manufactured 18 months apart, The 3 digit number on the sticker will tell you the month/year they were manufactured. The straight edge ones are from 2005/2006 and the round ones above are from Sept (ish) 2007.
14 Months ago to be exact, and if they click then they were from a batch of 1000 fans that only 1 box was sold and 900+ fans ended up being sent back. Since then none of the fans click, whether its open or closed corner.A coupla months ago i bought 3 open cornered D12SL-12's they have the new "curved" style blade design.
Also its not an 80mm motor, its a 25mm motor and any fan blade with the right size bearing will likely fit.