AC Infinity AIRPLATE T7, Quiet Cooling Fan System with Thermostat Control, for Home Theater AV Cabinets

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Impeccable

This thing rocks! I needed something to cool my new home theater rack with a glass door. It is now much warmer inside the unit than the previous "monster" rack I had with open shelves. I looked quite a bit but kept finding all kinds of fans for computers. I needed one like this that didn't need me to wire anything and I could plug into the wall. An added bonus to me is the thermostat controller. I didn't do anything fancy. I just drove a couple of finishing nails into the back of the shelf above my receiver and hung the fan assembly on the nails. The package does come with nice plastic templates to cut precise holes for the fan assembly and the thermostat if you want to mount them in a totally enclosed cabinet. Mine has open shelves in the back, I just wanted to move some air. The USB cord between the fans and the thermostat is long enough that I could place the thermostat controller on the top shelf next to my Monster Power supply with some leftover. The power cord from the thermostat with the little brick or wall mushroom is long enough to make it to the wall outlet with no problem. I set the thermostat controller on the shelf and it looks fine. There is a temperature probe wire attached to it that I hung down the front of the shelves to measure the temperature inside the cabinet. The first time I used it while watching a movie, I was not satisfied with the amount of cooling. Reason, I had the fans blowing into the cabinet over the receiver. This was maybe cooling the receiver like I wanted but it was just blowing a lot of hot air up over the rest of the electronics stack. I pulled the fan housing off the nails, turned it around and hung it back on the nails in the opposite direction to exhaust the hot air off the receiver out the back of the cabinet. That did the trick. I was able to set the temperature down to 76 degrees (my choice for now) and it easily holds that temperature. The temperature probe by the way is hanging just above the receiver. I am confident that it is being cooled like I want now. I've watched 4 or 5 movies since installing this unit and it does not make any perceptible noise when my home theater is blasting away. It maintains the set temperature steady as a rock! I keep it running after I finish watching the movie to allow the unit to cool down after I shut everything down and the fans are very quiet. Then I just have to unplug it from the wall. I am very satisfied. This thing was easy to set up, cools adequately and is quiet. The thermostat controller does have 2 USB ports so that you can add up to two more fans if you need more cooling power. I have had no problems with this quality product. If I do decide I need another fan, I would not hesitate to order another one.

Sehr gute Qualität von der Verpackung bis hin zu den Geräten. Bis jetzt laufen die Lüfter ausfallfrei und funktionell. Negativ: leicht erhöhter Geräuschpegel bei Lüfterlauf

Absolutely fantastic product for cabinet cooling. Very nice quality and very quiet fans. You can have the fans exhausting or blowing air in or 1 of each (one pulls and 1 pushes). No more need to open the cabinet door when the amplifier is on. The sensor turns the fans on when the set temperature is reached. Even an alarm if it gets too warm. Really impressed by the quality of product but also the packaging and included hardware. Top notch !!!

I bought this fan to cool the air around my valve hi-fi amplifier. Even though it sits on an open shelf, heat was clearly building up, especially on the shelf above where another device sits. I built a simple wooden frame for the fans so that I could suspend them from the shelf above and drag the hot air from the valves out to the side of the equipment. At the back would be better, if you can. It wasn't practical in my case. Normally these fans would be mounted in a more solid cabinet. I just used 1 piece of 26mm by 17mm by 600mm cut for 2 sides and 2 widths to make a clamp over the shelf. Wood-stained the frame and used 4 metal angle brackets and some screws. The thermostat controller has a wired temperature sensor that can be placed wherever you want to test. I attached it to the shelf above with Blu-tak (the hi-fi owners friend) so it reads the temperature right above the valves. The controller is powered by the supplied transformer plug. This is a US product but I got in the UK with a UK 3-pin plug. The controller has a number of modes, including setting the fans to 3 different speeds all of the time, or what they call smart mode. This is what I use. I selected 35 degrees Celsius as the temperature I want it to try not go over. If the temperature gets to that, it will run the fans at full tilt. 2 degrees below that and the fans go to mid-power to keep the noise down, and 3 degrees below the fans spin up to low speed. Below that and the fans stop, which means there's no noise and no wasted power. The controller displays in Celsius or Fahrenheit, by the way. There is also a spare USB socket to run another single or pair of fans, which you can buy separately, and they will all be controlled from the one controller unit. I currently run a USB desk fan from this in order to push the air away on the other side. I also screwed the controller to a couple of short bits of wood (same as the frame, above) to make a stand, where again it might be built into a cabinet. In the cooler months the fans can keep the temperature at 35 degrees, but with a summer ambient temperature in the room of 28 degrees C it tops out nearer 40 degrees C. The controller does have an alarm if the temperature gets too high, I think it flashes the backlight of the display. I've not seen that happen. Normally the controller displays the actual temperature of the sensor and the threshold that has been set, in smart mode. There are only a couple of buttons on the front of the controller that you need to use to set up your preferred mode and temperature, after that it's hands-off. I'm very pleased with this unit. The finish and build quality appear good, and it should last me 30 years. It's an expandable system and the fans run pretty quietly.