That is what I suspected from my experience with PC fans… but I couldn’t find anything on a first superficial inspection. If I find the time I will try to take out the fan and give it a proper inspection.
Might be worth considering to replace it with some well known high quality brand fan …
I was actually thinking the same. Havnt checked if its 12v or 24v but looks to be a 120mm. A phanteks t30 would be nice. If its not too thick. A Noctua A12 Industrial PPC 3000RPM would definately flow enough, but probably louder.
Just for slightly less noise. It may be hard to find a fan with this much pressure thats also silent.
But I was not able to find the brand and more specifications.
It is a 24 Volt fan for sure according to the picture
Replacing it with a noctua makes sens if Bambulabs doesn’t offer a replacement fan (I opened a support ticket. Let’s see if they offer a replacement fan).
Recently, mine has started making what I describe as a “weed eater” sound. What I mean is, during certain times, it sounds like my neighbor is outside with his weed eater going, at first, that’s what I actually thought it was until it happened during a rainy day. Has anyone else noticed that? It doesn’t happen the entire time, but when it does, it sure sounds like a muffled weed eater. I’m trying to isolate it.
Maybe? I’m not sure, this is my first 3D Printer and I’m still learning everything. It doesn’t make that sound constantly, so still watching it to determine root cause. I’m an IT engineer so I’m still investigating. It’s definitely a “neighbor using a weedeater 3 doors down sound” when I hear it. It’s not constant. I’ll take a look at the fan speeds.
Thats interesting that you ask. I’m printing something for the first time in PETG. It does have some small overhangs from what I can tell in the slicer, so perhaps thats the root cause. Did you adjust the overhang fan speed?
mine also makes the sound… sounds almost like a fridge in standby… but in standby the fans arent running so i doubt the sound is from the fans…
sound more like coil whine or a capacitator vibrating… i think i will open a ticket … because if it makes any problems in the future at least i told them already…