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Eurofurence Community => Special Interests => Fursuiters Forum => Topic started by: Kisu on 06.09.2008, 21:57:48
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I'd like to have some hints to make a portable fursuit dryer which would look like a hanger. I thought I saw someone having one of those made out of 12" pipe and 12voltage 12" fan if I recall correct. I got loads of cell batteries and large fans at home but was just wondering how the whole system was made. How much does those pipes cost, does the normal case fan have enough power to dry the suit ect?
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That's my fursuit dryer:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/Tioh/DSC01659_small.jpg
I use a 12V power supply.
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That's my fursuit dryer:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/Tioh/DSC01659_small.jpg
I use a 12V power supply.
Nifty mew :3
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The one you saw this year in the fursuit lounge was probably mine. Construction was done after what I've seen from Wolffire - just a bit rearranged to what parts were available. I can make some pictures of it for you in the evening.
As for drying effect: Wolffire uses an 8 cm fan in his construction - even a silent one - which has considerably less air flow. Still it drys the suit quite well (according to him and Bengges, who afaik has a similar thing).
I used a 12 x3,5 cm fan operating on 12 V - enough power. You could use a 230 V fan as well - they don't typically have more air flow - they are just able to keep it up even if there is some counter-pressure (the 12 V blowers go down in airflow then). 230 V fans are quite cheap (less than 10 Euros at Reichelt) - but I had the 12 V ones at hand... and 12 V ist perfectly safe to give to anybody *g* or let it hang in the lounge without supervision
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I just purchased a "HangAir" here (http://www.tauchshop-online.de/hangair_underwater_kinetics-onlineshop.php).
It has a 12V@8.4W(0.7A, 36,6m^3/min) ventilator and I am currently changing it to use
one 220V@20W main-ventilator and 2x 220V@15W -tube ventilators for the arms.
The original fan has 2 settings "high" and "low" and an incredibly long (5m)cable.
It's well build and looks much better then the home-made ones.
It is rated to hold 5Kg.
Size: 576x361x180mm and 2.45Kg.
I used Tiohs selfmade hang-dryer and it worked well but with the paddings the arms and legs
of the fursuit where too heavy to permit any air-flow with the small 12V-ventilator is used.
So I am getting some more power and try again.
The 115W-fans from the local home-improvement-store worked VERY well.
I found myself using the hang-dryer from Tioh and temporarily hold the legs of the fursuit
open in the air-flow of the large fan standing on the ground. I simply used a piece of yarn
to tie the openings of the legs to the grill of the fan.
...using 220V I may even have the space to add a power-socket, so I don't occupy one
socket in the wall without offering a new one. (There are never enough sockets.)
a 220V@20W one for 5.25eur (http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=2;GROUPID=3385;ARTICLE=11002) 10x15cm
a 220V@14W one for 5.40eur (http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=2;GROUPID=3385;ARTICLE=11010) 8x8cm
cable (http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=2;GROUPID=3385;ARTICLE=1007)
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Update:
It was already working with 1 220V/42W-fan and now
I had the chance to modify and attach the remaining 2 fans
on H-Con.
It's just a matter of some cables now until I can see how
well such strong "air-support" helps with heavy fursuit-arms.
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I'm working on my hanger now, I put up some pictures when I get it done n_n
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hello Tioh,
thanks for the tip with the suit-dryer :D
but i will modify it, because i want to have it as a combination to dry my suit and the head.
so i have sold an in-line vent, wich is used in an in-house climate system and works with
220volts (ac) at a powerhandling of only 15watts and have an air-flow of totaly 98qm/hour.
hugs Inu polarbear
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i made a fursuit dryer out of abathroom extractor fan it plugs into the mains and Realy Blows ! XD
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/tiggiefriend/25022009052.jpg) looks abit boreing but dose the job well
i has a long power cord on it for in my room and im not makeing a hanger for it as it wont then fit in the heads too. it can beused in our rooms if we put the boodys On the floor
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Quite a novel idea, just use what's available and works.
Do not forget to bring a (wall) socket converter, for use on the European continent.
(http://www.speedydelivery.co.uk/images/continental_adaptor_plug.jpg)
As far as I'm aware the mains voltage and frequency is the same as in the UK, i.e. 230V 50Hz .
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Do not forget to bring a (wall) socket converter, for use on the European continent.
BTW, it seems there are fans that work on 230 AND 110V (with reduced air-flow on 110V).
This may be interesting to people visiting non-european conventions.
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Okay. After having the pieces taking up space and
dust since the last H-Con, I got mine finished this weekend.
3x46W at 230V or 3x23W at 110V with a really nice
rubberized cable should be enough for even the
heavy arms of my suit to press some air through.
No need to borrow a 12V hang-dryer like last year.
It even looks really good.
I´ll post some photos on my user-page over at fursuit.de
soon.
Suran
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At least for the head i found out that dirt-devil hand vacuum cleaners used contrawise are perfect for that...
(http://www.loewi.mynetcologne.de/dirt-devil-devil.jpg)
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At least for the head i found out that dirt-devil hand vacuum cleaners used contrawise are perfect for that...
Well, for a devil's head, that is.
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At least for the head i found out that dirt-devil hand vacuum cleaners used contrawise are perfect for that...
For the head I used a 400mm fan, turned it to face up and used its grill as a flat surface to rest the head on.
Dry within minutes.
Suran
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I tried to make nice suitcoolers but both broke >:(. Guess I'm gonna follow Tioh's example.