Replacing fan on Steve's LED - Too damn loud!

[Timbo227]

My Steve's LED cooling fan is too loud (50-60 dB with all other equipment turned off). Does anyone know of a "how to"  for replacing the fan with a quieter PC fan?

 

Also, my stock lighting did not require a fan for the temperature to stay under 80 degrees, does Steve's LED run hotter than the stock PC bulbs? If not, does anyone know how to just turn off the power to the cooling fans? 

 

I am about ready to go back to the stock lighting if I can't resolved this. 

 

Thanks!

[NanoRox]

19 minutes ago, Timbo227 said:

My Steve's LED cooling fan is too loud (50-60 dB with all other equipment turned off). Does anyone know of a "how to"  for replacing the fan with a quieter PC fan?

 

Also, my stock lighting did not require a fan for the temperature to stay under 80 degrees, does Steve's LED run hotter than the stock PC bulbs? If not, does anyone know how to just turn off the power to the cooling fans? 

 

I am about ready to go back to the stock lighting if I can't resolved this. 

 

Thanks!

I have to admit mine is very loud as well.  I'm not prepared to take it out but I can say my light has run for months without the fan until I setup one of the new default settings and now it runs all the time during the day. 

[Timbo227]

7 minutes ago, Duane Clark said:

my light has run for months without the fan until I setup one of the new default settings

So you ran Steve's LED on your biocube without the fans and had no heat issues? What is the new default setting? Never heard of it. If I can figure how to turn off just the fan, and temperatures stay in check, I'm a happy camper.

[NanoRox]

14 minutes ago, Timbo227 said:

So you ran Steve's LED on your biocube without the fans and had no heat issues? What is the new default setting? Never heard of it. If I can figure how to turn off just the fan, and temperatures stay in check, I'm a happy camper.

man...my bad....not Steve's...dave's from nanobox.  different product. Sorry about that. 

[HarryPotter]

You don’t want to run LEDs without the fan. They’ll overheat and lose lifetime very quickly. Depending on the heat sink and what you’re running them at, fthey can be ruined in hours or weeks. 

[Timbo227]

1 hour ago, HarryPotter said:

You don’t want to run LEDs without the fan. They’ll overheat and lose lifetime very quickly. Depending on the heat sink and what you’re running them at, fthey can be ruined in hours or weeks. 

Dang... So I guess my best bet is to get a quieter fan. Anyone know if I have to use Steve's stock fan, or if I can get a quiet PC fan and put it in?

[Horerczy]

Steve's uses that wierd fan that blows through square tubing right?

 

If you could rig up a fan to blow air directly down the tubes it might work. Hard to say without pictures of the setup.

[Larry Mann]

I just purchased the Steves Led BioCube lighting last week, the lighting and controller are working great but the fan is just too loud (high pitch).  Anyone come up with a replacement fan yet?  It's so noisy, I feel like we are outside of the airport.  I already reached out to the supplier and am waiting to hear back.

 

[Yuusaku]

On 11/30/2021 at 3:49 PM, Larry Mann said:

I just purchased the Steves Led BioCube lighting last week, the lighting and controller are working great but the fan is just too loud (high pitch).  Anyone come up with a replacement fan yet?  It's so noisy, I feel like we are outside of the airport.  I already reached out to the supplier and am waiting to hear back.

 

Did you get any solutions? I got mine, and it is damn loud.. cant stand it 😞

[Yuusaku]

@StevesLEDs any idea how we can improve the noise level?

[NanoReefer1975]

Just installed the bio cube 16 upgrade and I hate it already and the lights have not even come on yet!!! The fans are extremely noisy!!! Don’t buy this!!! Save your money. Remove the hood completely or leave it stock.