Fans?

[nsbuff28]

Just wanted to ask around has anyone I stalled fans in their scout buckets. I’ve noticed on the past few troops that I’ve been getting real hot. I was thinking of getting a fan set and curious if anyone has used them and and if so how they mounted them in their bucket? 

[Stroker]

Yes there troopers around here that have. Maybe one of em will chime in.

[greenyone]

Currently still working on my own little custom system.  Still sorting out the parts I plan on using.  You can follow here:

 

[nsbuff28]

On 8/18/2019 at 9:35 AM, greenyone said:

Currently still working on my own little custom system.  Still sorting out the parts I plan on using.  You can follow here:

 

Thanks I’ll definitely be following your topic! 

[Barber]

I have one small fan in my helmet. It doesn't help a ton with keeping cool but it does move some air around. Mine is mounted to the inside of the faceplate/visor that flips up. It basically blows air across the face, which helps it to not fog up at all. Fitting the battery pack was the hardest thing about it. I'll try to post some pics later.

The fan kit I went with was from Henry's Helmet Fans. I am only using one fan so I could minimize on the amount of wires.

[JamminJedi]

Hey All!  First Post!  Okay, so I'm not officially 501st yet (pending photo approval atm) but I've spent A LOT of time on and inside my bucket.  I'm SUPER happy with the fan situation.  I've placed 2 5v brushless cooling fans up in the top pointed down towards the face.  Ensuring my breath blew down and out instead of up and around was very important to me and my visor.  Also (and mainly) for some reason, my face is SUPER close to the face shield so I couldn't shove anything anywhere near my mouth.  Each fan is powered individually by it's own ANKER lipstick USB power pack that I've sewn into little pouches with little velcro straps to attach to the back of my hard hat thingy.  The USB cables I salvaged from a couple of those micro drones that bit the dust so I soldered the fans directly into the boards and closed the back up with hot glue.  As you can see I've left a good amount of cable coiled up to make replacement super simple.  

[JamminJedi]

USB Cables... not that it matters.

[nsbuff28]

I recently ordered a fan kit and received them in a vert short time. I recently installed them and I have to say they are quite nice. I took the fans and blacked them on the front of my sc bucket right about where my forehead is. Surprising there is no issue of them catching anything and pulling it into the fans. The increased air flow is wonderful and has eliminated any fog on my visor. I went to biglots and picked up a 2200amh battery pack for 10 bucks and I left the fans running on the battery and got just over 2 hours running 2 fans. I ran the wires up along the top of my sc bucket under my helmet pads and I attached heavy duty Velcro to the battery and mounted it along the back of the bucket, along with the button to turn the fans on and off. 

[nsbuff28]

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[JamminJedi]

7 hours ago, nsbuff28 said:

Surprising there is no issue of them catching anything and pulling it into the fans.

Thanks to the balaclava I'm assuming?  I put mine on in a rush once to test mic placement and forgot I had the fans running... sucked my hair right up into em lol.

Thanks for sharing those pics.  I LOVE seeing the inside of people's lids!  Like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two are ever alike!

[nsbuff28]

I did try it with out the balaclava on luckily I have short hair haha. Completely agree about seeming the inside of the helmets I love seeing how everyone does the inside!


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[mickeymark34]

I have a buddy that designs his own fans. Last I knew his page was First Order Concepts.