Doc2 Kurtis Fischer Essay

Submitted By samflores211
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Designing the cooling fan

If you design any kind of mechanical motor, you may want to read this. If you work in a shop with a mechanical fridge or tank of something, do you need to constantly stop the machine and let it cool down? Probably not because it has a cooling fan, read on in this essay to read more about them. While you’re reading, think about this, in most machines, things can get hot and overheated and may light on fire, with a cooling fan that may reduce the risk.

These fans greatly reduce the risk of many fires that happen in thousands of worldwide machines. Next time you look under the hood of a car, or hear a tractor running and have it driving all day, the cooling fan is doing its job. Now in most cars, if the engine is overheated, due to the result of a broken or absence of a fan they will stop running, and not light up. Think back during the time the first cars were invented, they did not have a cooling fan; the cars would light up a lot easier.
Cooling fans are not only in cars, but in most anything with a motor that can get hot. Laptops, computers, phones, and game systems all have cooling fans. All welders and air compressors have fans in them, if it is running for too long you will hear something kick on, that is the fan. Furnaces are built in with fans, the fan kicks on when the heat stops coming out of the vent.
Though most things need fans, there are great downsides. If the fan is powered and someone touches it, you can potentially cut your fingers off. Though most machines need them, they are a little on the costly side. Also if your car is idling and you are