Electrical question

[David Love]

The box I have is quite thin (3" deep or so), actually it's made from one of
your old shipping creates.  So it won't hold a fan that's very large.  Since
I'm only drying down one panel at a time I didn't figure I needed anything
very deep plus more depth takes up more space in my ever more crowded shop.


David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Farrell
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:43 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Electrical question

I see now that I did not directly answer your question David. My fan is 
120V, so all I had to do was take an electrical cord (lamp cord) with a plug

on one end and bare wire ends on the other. I simply spliced the two cord 
leads onto the two wired dangling out of the fan with crimp connectors (the 
pink things in the first picture). I don't remember is polarity was a 
factor - likely if you hook it up backwards maybe the fan will go 
backwards - if so, just hook it up the other way. IMHO, forget the 12V and 
just get the 120V so that you don't have to monkey around with batteries - 
you can just plug it into the wall.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> So I'm making a new hot box for my soundboard panels.  I want to install a
> small little fan like a computer cooling fan in the box to circulate the
> air.  They come with a couple of wires (not like a plug or anything) and
> information about voltage, max current, all kinds of stuff that means
> nothing to me, the electrically challenged.  If I want to hook this thing
> up, how do I do it?  Can I just connect it to a 12 volt battery if it's a 
> 12
> volt fan?  If I want to plug it into something do I need something like a
> capacitor to pull down the current to a level that this little thing can
> handle?  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
> David Love