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I am putting all my home theater components in my new house in the hall closet, and it is getting quite hot in there. I need some sort of fan, I think. Anyone have any suggestions?

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    by tf23 ( 27474 )
    Have you seen some of the flexible-tubing that they're using to run ventilation around some of the newly built houses?

    Get some of that - and cut a hole in that closet, in the bottom. Run some of that round flexible ventilation tubing to the hole.

    Easy enough.

    If you can figure out a way to run a hole at the top of the closet, to your return duct air system, you get bonus points.
    • I'd rather not cut any holes in anything.

      However, the house's crawl space is right below the closet floor, so that might be a way to go ... but still, I would rather not cut anything. Could I get away with just a fan blowing air from inside the closet onto the equipment, or do I really need to bring in outside air/push out inside air?
      • Now, I'm no fluid dynamics engineer or anything like that, but I'm fairly certain that for proper 'flow' you need the circulatory affect. So you need the cool air pushing in, and you need a method for the hot air (preferably up high) to escape/be pushed out.

        If you're thinking about routing a cool air flow through the crawlspace up to the closet... I'd question that. What's the temp in that crawlspace? Will you have to worry about condensation there?

        • You think I could I get away with just getting a door with holes in the top and bottom?
          • maybe. but then what's the point of having all that stuff crammed in there?

            the heat would be escaping into the room you're in.
            the noise would be escaping into the room you're in.

            i assume, besides having to look at flickering lights/colors/led's, those are the two main reasons to put everything in a closet?
            • No, the main reason is to keep it out of the way, especially away from the prying appendages of animals and children, and out of the sight of the womenfolk.

      • Could I get away with just a fan blowing air from inside the closet onto the equipment, or do I really need to bring in outside air/push out inside air?

        You need the fan to deliver cooler air than is currently around the computer. I'm guessing there isn't a significant variation in temperature from one part of the closet to another, so you need the fan to bring in air from (or send air out to) somewhere outside the closet.

        Leaving the closet door open isn't an option?

        • No, leaving the closet door open is really not an option.

          And there's no computer, per se. I mean, the TiVo and PS2 certainly qualify, and the laptop is there for streaming MP3s ... the real heat producers are the amp, and to a lesser degree, the TiVo.
  • Use a small-ish window fan, mounted on the door. (supposing the door is sturdy enough to mount a fan.) Most have enough control over the speed to provide little noise, some are light enough to mount as such.
    example fan @ wally world [walmart.com]

    If you go the mounted-fan route, it may be better to mount the fan, pointing inward, slightly above floor level, to pull cooler air into the room. Having an opening at the top of the closet door will allow the positive pressure created in the room to be vented, plus you'll hav
  • My friend also just built a new house, and is putting several A/V and computing resources into the den closet. He plans on leaving the door cracked all the time, but at least had the foresight to put an electrical outlet (on a separate circuit) and an A/C vent into the closet.

    My concern with the A/C outlet is that there will be frequent large temperature variations in all of his electrical equipment now. When the A/C kicks on, the components will cool a few degrees from the direct cold air being piped
  • You could use the peltier effect to your advantage and ciphon the heat to convert into more power. No fan, no extra noise. Or you could use all that heat to warmup your hotwatter with no charge. =)

    Serriously now, all the A/V racks i have ever seen integrate some sort of air-cooling system to blow/push the hot air away. Typically the hot air is vented to the top due to the use of Amplifiers which have allot of heat waste. Some serrious A/V fanatics like to use power from a different well of power for the v

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