A while ago I saw a project in here about a smarter fan over wifi. I’ve been working on a similar thing, allows you to add the intelligence of that one product that already exists but to you existing fan. I’d love some feedback on if this is cool to you? I’ve made a video about it. With all the peo…

Yea, that’s cool, I need one of those. I jump on the bike with my fan on full tilt and freeze my ass off for the 3-5 minutes it takes to warm up!

I did the same thing. Works great. I think there is demand for this feature, but the pricing would need to be low enough to appeal to people who don’t want to drop $250 on a wahoo headwind. A lasko max performance fan runs in the range of $100-$120 so the hardware to do the variable speed fan contr…

Enjoy the downtime! With your background, I do not expect you will have any problems finding your footing. You will be busy before you know it!

My friend pointed out your work only a couple of weeks ago. It’s been an idea kicking around my head for a while so afterleaving a groupset company I figured I’d give some of my ideas a go. You’re right, it could be very sensitive to price. The Lasko fans seem really popular so I got the knock off /…

I think the concept of the controllable fan is very cool. Pun intentional. I think there is probably niche demand on it. The Zwift forums would be the best place to get your name and product known if it every goes to market. Good luck and welcome to the forum.

You’re likely right. Thought the trainer road people seem a bit more hardcore about the fan situation than the Zwift people. More training focused.

my rudimentary solution is that I have my fans hooked up to wifi outlets and just leave them in the on position, when I’m ready to go I just flick each on via the app, because I really don’t like to start off with the fans going (especially at high power!). For me, the headwind sounds neat but the …

I’ve tested a few different fans with mine also. The lasko ones seem to work the best I.e give the biggest adjustable speed range using the Triac as power controller. I think the demand is there, but the “lower” end of the market will be price sensitive. The “higher” end of the market is taken by t…

If anyone wants my two cents, the real untapped market is finding a way to get a lasko-like fan introduced into the UK/EU, period. As far as I can tell from this forum, that style of fan isn’t available over there right now.

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