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    Default Fan controllers - anything for air movement fans?

    I have my inlet, extraction and air movement fan all connected to a programmable 4-way that can be viewed and changed remotely. The functionality is good, in theory, but the reliability isn’t. Sometimes one of the sockets will ‘stick’, so I’ll return from a day out to find that the extraction fan of the inlet fan is still running on its own. Not only for wasted electricity, but the inconsistency of 1 of the fans staying on too.

    I am aware of the twin fan controllers like the SMSCOM for the inlet / outlet, but is there something on the market (reasonably priced) that enables you to plug in x3 or x4 and have the ability to control?

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    I use an SMSCOM, works fine

    Not sure how being able to alter the air movement fan would help me though (I already have a high & low switch on it LOL)
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    I guess I could live with just inlet, outlet fans.

    I used a thermometer last year that provided logs, with low / high set points to send an alarm if it got too high or low, so I was eventually able to manually set times for all x3 fans to go on and off (up to 8 times in a 24 hour period in the summer) and had it fine tuned, all in a bid to save some electricity. The speed control may help overall with savings than one / off 8 times a day at full load, but I think I’ve been used to having all x3 timed / controlled, so maybe more of a like to have air movement fan controlled than a need.

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    It would be nice to have that control... but, IMHO, I can't really see it saving much energy... but, yeah, a constant temp across the whole groom is tempting

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