IN order to cool off our trailer? I know one way will draw all the air upward, and the other way will disperse the air outward and downward, thus cooling the place off. Is it clockwise rotation, or counter-clockwise rotation? It's freaking 81 degrees in here, and to early to run the air-conditioner(keep in mind, 3 days ago, it was 45 degrees outside, LOL).

Also, as an aside, Ding 1k. I'm now an ugly butterfly!

Clockwise will cool you off.

Ahh, thank you very much. They were already set in the right position then. Damnable crazy weather! Going to be 80 degrees tomorrow and Wednesday, so going to roast in here unless we fire up the a/c. Ceiling Fans only go so far in cooling you off. I'd leave the windows open all night if I wasn't so paranoid about someone breaking in(I may live out in the middle of nowhere, but that didn't stop someone from trying to break in while we were home 3 years ago ><).

I'm in Florida, its been 80 for a couple weeks hah. Yeah fans will cool you off a bit but they are no good at cooling the house off.

I thought this was going to be a nether reams of the internet that starts with a four discussion type thing lol

It depends on the blades

and the humidity. Fans only move the air, they don't reduce humidity. The breeze on the skin makes you feel cooler.
I also live in Florida, and the heat here is nuts.

Convection cooling - point a fan at everything.

Evaporative cooling - draqe everything in wet hessian. Makes your place smell like string, though.

If you combine to two, you get an evaporative cooler. Make water run through some material with a sizable fan blowing through it. The water collects at the reservoir and is pumped back up and inserted into the system.

The best way to prevent the trailer from heating up would be to set up a sun-sail. No direct incident sunlight = 2 degrees cooler. Open up the trailer so you have circulation and if that doesn't do it, dig a hole in the ground and park it in there - the ground is a perfect heat-sink.

From my experience, fans just disperse the heat around the room instead of letting it settle at the top and cool down.

Hehe, this trailer is so old, it's immoveable(basically it's sunk into the ground a bit). The roof is painted with white sealant so that helps reflect some of the heat away. No insulation whatsoever though in the walls, so it gets rather hot in the summer(but cools off decently once sun goes down) and gets damn cold in the winter.

I honestly didn't know that it mattered which way a fan rotates to cool off anything..... i guess im just one of those people that buys a fan and expects it to cool me off.

Ignorance is bliss?

Probably because you never dreamed of running your fan in the winter, and left it how it came. I say this because it was a long time before I knew that fans had a winter setting.

Ya. I bought a heater looking fan thing and switched them out over winter and summer. I guess that requires storing space.



in the case of a fan's rotation I am supposing so.

Where I come from a trailer is just one of http://www.brooklandsfarm.co.uk/Portals/0/LesureTrailers/CamelTrailerBig.jpg.

While on this topic. Does anyone know if http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/ny/090913-dyson-fan-02.jpg new blade-less Dyson fans work? If so, better than regular fans?

Small amount of air is svcked in from the base, piped up and blown out the ring. The ring is an airfoil shape, so the pressure differential impels increasingly large volumes of air along with it.

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChp0Cy33eY

It has everything to do with air viscosity and the airfoil design. Stylishly gimmicky though - the power from the resulting airstream is several orders of magnitude less than what industrial fans can produce easily with a couple of volts.

Oh jesus, that's alot of science.GLaDOS help me.

It was all figured out in the late 19th century. Prandlt, I think his name was. Nothing new, just re-applied by industrial designers and sold to people with far too much money.

That's a carrying trailer, or a hitch trailer as it's called around here. My brother-in-law uses it to haul random junk and/or the occasional car. My trailer is actually a bit more then a typical trailer, it's been built on to years ago. Not what you would see in Florida at trailer parks(it's not bright silver and basically corrugated tin), it's got proper siding and everything like a house. It just started life out as a trailer.

Edit: Also, I didn't realize fans had different settings until about a year or two after I moved in here. My parents were visiting and my mom happened to mention that I should make sure I have my fans rotating the right way to help keep it cool in the summer time. Apparently my dad didn't know that either, LOL.

Live in Florida as well and personally i'll take the heat compared to that freak cold spell we had. That was freaking nuts and I swear i'm still sick from that cold weather that came through here. Just now i'm starting to feel somewhat better and like my old self.