Yeah, evaporation from clothing vs on the skin would affect the heat transfer. It would cool the clothing not your skin. Though if it’s relatively skin tight than the jersey would then cool your skin through conduction. It is less effective than direct from skin evaporation but should still be better than the droplet dripping off entirely. It’s probably close to a wash either way, in any case.
The (dry bulb) temperature of the air won’t matter near as much its relative humidity. Warm dry (ish) air would cool you off better than cool saturated air (once you started sweating, anyhow).
Does the sweat really evaporate (and extract the heat as it should) if it just get blown away from my skin by the fans airflow? Basically the fans dry me.
I train with 2 Lasko floor fans aimed at my face and upper torso. No fan for my back (yet).
Some of it definitely evaporates otherwise you’d overheat pretty quickly even at low intensity unless the room was quite cold. If it’s getting blown off you perhaps you’d be able to see the splatter behind you.
Earlier this year I moved one of my fans to behind me and it has been a pretty nice improvement.
Anyone like anything that can be mounted on a wall? I have a 3 fans set up (two rear, one front right), but I need something that blows into my face on the left but the wall is on the left, and I don’t have the space to fit something in between the bike and wall that can be angled right.
Does anyone know of a fan besides the not yet released Elite Aria fan that includes filters? I have allergies and am pretty sensitive to dust, plus our Borzoi’s hair gets everywhere.
Or are there any of the blower fans that you can open up easily and clean the blades?
If you’re concerned about allergies I’d probably use a separate air purifier. The fan itself isn’t producing them and putting that level of filtration on a fan will drop the airflow a fair bit.
I don’t know your current fan setup, but I have one of these set up on a small table in front of my bike. It blows over the handle bars and hits my face and torso. It’s the only fan that I have, and it’s sufficient to keep me from dripping sweat off my body.
I’m not looking for the fan to provide filtration. I’m looking for a way to keep the fan from spewing dust / dog hair at me. On my current fan I can open the protective cover and clean the blades. But the downside with my current fan is that it is a circulator, so while it moves lots of air the air isn’t concentrated on me.
That’s what I have. I suppose I could move everything out to create space, but I also am purposely trying to compress the area. I don’t have any space bottom left to put another fan.
You may be able to fit the blower fan behind the TV stand and angle it so the air flows beneath the TV, and above your bars.
I’d recommend buying a blower fan anyway, and find a place to put it. The blower fans are SO much better than axial fans - so you’ll need fewer blower fans than axial fans.
And worth buying a Lasko model (like the one I linked to) that has a pivoting head so you can adjust to the ideal airflow angle.
