Inline fan silencers... what brand is the best?

Diesel0889

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Hey guys and gals. I just was wondering before I pull the trigger on a 90 dollar phresh silencer if the cheaper vivosun or similar works as well. In the end I want one on each side of my hurricane 6" and have always used phresh or phat silencers but wanted someone who has experience with the best and cheapest to weigh in on the difference in performance if any. Carbon filters very widey, do the mufflers as well? Any insight is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
 

Diesel0889

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Even a suggestion of what YOU use and how effective it was. Any info??? Anyone? I will prob buy before I go to bed tonight but I'm not against saving money but not at the expense of quality equipment. Phresh has always been up there on the quality side but is there a cheaper just as effective option out there? Hoping someone will chime in.:bigjoint:
 

DailyBlastin

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Havent personally used a silencer but if your goal is simply to quiet down your fan noise a bit you can build a sound proof box for your fan to sit in. This has always been how i quiet down mine, i've used cardboard boxes, plastic totes, wooden boxes, etc for the housing, just has to be big enough to allow foam packing on all sides of the fan, then simply cut holes for your ducting and power cord to run through, then with the fan placed inside connect your ducting and proceed to fill the box with foam pieces, you can use pretty much any foam for this, the more dense it is the better though, ive used packing peanuts, cut up mattress topper foam, and actual sound proofing foam, all work but the sound proof specific stuff is a little better than the mattress topper was, and mattress topper was alot better than packing peanuts. once the box is closed up you will notice significantly less sound, hope this helps.
 

redzi

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I use deep, dense, heavy carpet wrapped on the inside of a metal duct (four foot tube). Buy some rubber from Amazon (used to seal a car trunk). The weight pressing down on the weather strip creats a perfect seal. Ugly but much more effective than the factory job.
 

Diesel0889

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Thank you all for the answers thus far. I have bought a phresh silencer but will prob also do the box idea you guys describe.. seems to be popular
 

Chris Edward

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I know I am bit late to the party but…

If you’re looking for something that is functional but may not be the prettiest girl at the dance…
You can make a simple muffler out of some hardware cloth and acoustic foam.
The one I use brings my fan noise from slightly noticeable outside to where you cannot hear a thing once you shut the door to the room.

Plus it’s so much cheaper than a Phresh muffler and it does the same thing. If you look at the photos the Phresh muffler is pretty much acoustic foam stuffed into a Phresh housing.

But I am sure it’s some special Australian foam that isn’t reference-able anywhere but on the Phresh website.
 

Lucky Luke

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I use a phresh silenced fan with a fan speed controller.
Fan noise is hardly noticeable but the vortex as the air leaves the ducking is. Ill have to remedy that one day, just jumping up from 6 inch to a small piece of 10inch ducting at the end should slow the air down and therefore the woooshh.

Its also a big difference in cheap ducting to acoustic ducting and the one/s in between.
 

madininagyal

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I just bought a 4” Vivosun. It’s not real loud, quieter than my 2 6 inch duct booster fans that I have. Amazon prime showed up in 3 days
I bought thé same and its very quiet compared To my old fan!! Small also but work perfect, i still haven't put my air ducting with isolant they help quiet thé sound like à silencer so its à good option for stealth grow
 

Glenkush

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I did mine myself.

Let say you need a 4inch silencer, you take a 6inch rigid circular duct and you lay eggsheel maltress inside (10$ at walmart) then 6 to 4inch reducer.

I would have taken pictures but its hidden in the wall. It really lower the noise a lot, but you still hear the noise of air moving a bit...

 

DrdankPHD

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Best ones phresh silencers. But the right solution just oversized your fan. If we're gonna do 6 inch. Just go 8 inch or bigger. And get right can filter. Run 8 inch I use hurcaine. Run with speed control you can run it at lower speed. Instead of higher speed with 6 inch creating all the noise. IMO the bigger 8 inch fans are more reliable. Or u can use 8 inch and duct it down to 6 inch.
 

Stoned Cold Bulldog

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I know I am bit late to the party but…

If you’re looking for something that is functional but may not be the prettiest girl at the dance…
You can make a simple muffler out of some hardware cloth and acoustic foam.
The one I use brings my fan noise from slightly noticeable outside to where you cannot hear a thing once you shut the door to the room.

Plus it’s so much cheaper than a Phresh muffler and it does the same thing. If you look at the photos the Phresh muffler is pretty much acoustic foam stuffed into a Phresh housing.

But I am sure it’s some special Australian foam that isn’t reference-able anywhere but on the Phresh website.
can u do a tutorial on exactly how u make yours please. thx
 

Stoned Cold Bulldog

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Best ones phresh silencers. But the right solution just oversized your fan. If we're gonna do 6 inch. Just go 8 inch or bigger. And get right can filter. Run 8 inch I use hurcaine. Run with speed control you can run it at lower speed. Instead of higher speed with 6 inch creating all the noise. IMO the bigger 8 inch fans are more reliable. Or u can use 8 inch and duct it down to 6 inch.
what speed controller do you use that actually works ? thx
 

Stoned Cold Bulldog

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Just make your own and buy a speed controller! Lower the speed on the fan and it cuts the noise in half.
the issue has always been that many speed controllers don't work well for our equipment. so that suggestion without functional examples of which to use has always created another thread of info to address the fan contril issue. which ends up speaking on using some type of variac option.
 

NewGrower2011

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I've used both Phresh silencer and now an AC Infinity one. They're just tubes of a specific diameter with decent acoustic foam stuffed inside. It's all about the ratio of size of the duct vs size of silencer. It's 3x size of duct IIRC.
 
I know I am bit late to the party but…

If you’re looking for something that is functional but may not be the prettiest girl at the dance…
You can make a simple muffler out of some hardware cloth and acoustic foam.
The one I use brings my fan noise from slightly noticeable outside to where you cannot hear a thing once you shut the door to the room.

Plus it’s so much cheaper than a Phresh muffler and it does the same thing. If you look at the photos the Phresh muffler is pretty much acoustic foam stuffed into a Phresh housing.

But I am sure it’s some special Australian foam that isn’t reference-able anywhere but on the Phresh website.
hey mate thanks for sharing that wisdom about all the silencers being basically the same I was about to buy a fancy looking silencer because I just turned my fan on and was pretty shocked at the noise it’s a steady hum that needs to be fixed or things won’t end to well for me lol I just baught a cheap silencer I’m in the process of building a sound box do u think this will do the job or do I need one of those phresh ones with special foam
 

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coreywebster

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hey mate thanks for sharing that wisdom about all the silencers being basically the same I was about to buy a fancy looking silencer because I just turned my fan on and was pretty shocked at the noise it’s a steady hum that needs to be fixed or things won’t end to well for me lol I just baught a cheap silencer I’m in the process of building a sound box do u think this will do the job or do I need one of those phresh ones with special foam
You won't stop motor hum with a bit of egg crate foam , be it an expensive shop bought or DIY version.

Mass is needed and a lot of it. Those frequencies are incredibly hard to stop.

The best way is to buy a fan that doesn't hum that uses an EC motor or a variac to lower the speed without creating that hum.

Oversized everything and reducing speed with the right controller is the way forward.

You can buy very quiet fans these days , but you need to be careful and never trust a $400 fan labeled silent that doesn't show their decibel rating, because if it's truly quiet they should be screaming that Db rating from the rooftops
 
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