Attic Fans Home Power Magazine

These fans can be set to turn on when attic temperatures reach a specified high.

Attic fans home power magazine.

There are many types of attic fans such as. This rapid air exchange large fans can purge a house of hot air in two to three minutes not only removes built up heat but also creates a pleasant breeze. A whole house fan is a fan that exhausts air from the home into the attic and out the attic vents. The most important figure when it comes to attic fans is cubic feet per minute cfm the volume of air the fan moves.

Three years ago i wrote an article titled don t let your attic suck power attic ventilators are a bad idea nearly a hundred thousand page views and 93 comments later it s still generating lots of heat. Home power magazine was published from october 1987 to november 2018. An attic fan on the other hand is a fan that exhausts only attic air out of the attic vents. Attic fans do not draw air from inside a home like whole house fans but instead draw air from the outside directly into the attic to replace hotter air trapped there.

The bigger the house for whole house fans or attic space for attic venting fans the higher the cfm figure you need. Attic gable fans roof mount attic fans and solar attic fans. It provided a first of its kind networking hub for end users professional installers and equipment manufacturers to interact share ideas and advance the use of renewable. Replace heat producing incandescent lighting with led lights.

Throughout its 31 year history home power played a central and indispensable role in the mainstreaming of residential scale renewable energy systems. The basic design is simple. An attic mounted fan pushes hot air out through attic vents and draws cooler outside air in through open doors and windows.