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All ventilation fan systems should contain an intake and an exhaust variable,
which can be fans or ventilation holes. In an ideal set up, there should be a fan
located near the top of the cabinet con gured to exhaust out air, and a fan located
near the bottom to push in air. Electronics such as receivers and computers within
a cabinet will cause air to heat up. Due to natural convection, warmer air which is
less dense than colder air will rise on its own. An ef cient fan system helps
accelerate natural convection by rapidly exhausting warmer air out the top of the
cabinet while pushing colder air in at the bottom.

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Cabinet fan systems that contain only one fan should have it con gured to exhaust
hot air out the top of the cabinet. There must be ventilation holes located elsewhere
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on the cabinet, preferably towards the bottom to act as an air intake. Using fans to
push air out will cause negative or lowered pressure within the cabinet. Because air
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the cabinet from the ventilation holes. Poorly designed systems include set-ups
where there are one or more fans to exhaust air, but no other fans or ventilation
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Optimal Cabinet Fan CFM Recommendations

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A fan or set of fan’s CFM rating measures the rate at which air ows into or out of a
space. More speci cally, the cubic feet of air the fan will displace every minute. The
higher this number is, the faster a cabinet will be ventilated. However, it is
important to note that factory CFM ratings only holds true for absolute perfect
conditions such as zero static pressure and without heat and other externalities.

Real world CFM delivery can vary due to differences in the number and size of
electronics inside the cabinet, the amount of heat generated by said devices, the
static pressure inside versus outside, and more. After dividing the dimensions of a
cabinet by 1728 to get the cubic feet area, we multiply by three to account for all of
these real world variables. This gives us a CFM rating we are comfortable
recommending and will provide suf cient ventilation for the majority of electronic
and component cabinets.

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