I have a square room with a good sized window to can open. It’s very cold outside, how do I best arrange my bike and fan for best cooling?
I currently have trainer in front of window but facing away from window and nice Laski fan in middle of room in front of me blowing at me but also toward window. I open the window well before I start my workout but don’t feel it gets that cold. (Canada so it’s freezing or below out)
I don’t think I get mad cooling because the fan essentially faces the window with me in between
Any HVAC specialists can help me out? What is optimal setup for cooling?
I would place the bike as you have facing away from the window i would then elevate the fan on a table, tall box or something else so that it is facing you and blowing directly at you . the cooler air would fall down to the floor as it is more dense air once it comes through the open window. Hot air rises so the air movement naturally would flow from bottom of the window across the floor and circle around the negative pressure behind the fan and the hotter air would rise in the room and naturally ventilate out through the upper portion of the open window in a circular fashion. you want to somehow cause a lower pressure inside the room so the more dense are outside will naturally be drawn into the room.
Get a separate cheap mini fan you can put in window. Doesn’t need to move much air, will cool room in a hurry. Consider one of those cheap wireless remote plugs so you can turn on and off to modulate temp.
Before you go ordering one on amazon, there’s an equivalent fan available at Lowes that’s cheaper than anything I’ve found available to order online from Canada
An open window may not result in much airflow by itself. Especially into a room with no other exterior windows.
I’d probably put a fan in the window blowing air out of the room. You could face the fan either direction and blowing in would cool better but you’d be pressurizing that room relative to rest of the house and you would humidify the house (and possible make the other rooms smell like sweat). Also the cooling would be more tempered air vs getting blasted with below freezing air.
The ideal case is if it’s an old house with double hung windows. Then you could stick a two prop window fan in the bottom and have the top open as a relief path (just make sure to shut it when you’re done).
It’s very quiet. Quieter (and more effective) than the large orbital floor fan from Canadian Tire that I also use alongside it. The best way that I can describe it is that the fan and its motor are quieter than the “woosh” of the air itself moving.
I can’t speak to that other style, but I would imagine that it would be harder to position since it doesn’t have the pivoting stand.
