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Johnny999
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Am I doing this right if I want intake in the front and exhaust on the top and in the rear? Or should I flip the fans.

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25 minutes ago, Johnny999 said:

Am I doing this right if I want intake in the front and exhaust on the top and in the rear? Or should I flip the fans.

If you position the fans like this, the front fans will exhaust air. EDIT: oh and I just noticed the top/rear fans will intake air. If you want intake in the front, exhaust in the top/read: flip all the fans from what you have now.

And easy way to know how to position fans is to remember that air comes OUT of the side with the 'ribs' of the fans:

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Alternatively if you have the fan in hand, you can look at the side and find two arrows. One showing what way it spins, the other pointing how the air moves through the fan.

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15 minutes ago, minibois said:

If you position the fans like this, the front fans will exhaust air.

And easy way to know how to position fans is to remember that air comes OUT of the side with the 'ribs' of the fans:

image.png.79e71d1e745f3d64d1c01f36be82bade.png

 

Alternatively if you have the fan in hand, you can look at the side and find two arrows. One showing what way it spins, the other pointing how the air moves through the fan.

Thank you, so I should flip all 5 of them if I understand correctly?

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Just now, Johnny999 said:

Thank you, so I should flip all 5 of them if I understand correctly?

Yep, correct.

Just noticed a second ago the top/rear fans are (in your current image) intaking air, rather than exhaust.

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Just now, minibois said:

Yep, correct.

Just noticed a second ago the top/rear fans are (in your current image) intaking air, rather than exhaust.

Thanks a lot.

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typically you can tell which direction the fan pushes air by which part of the blade is cupped, or concave. The concave side of the fan blade is typically the exhaust side discounting weird fans that aren't designed around moving air efficiently

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