For over 40 years, Fantech has been at the bleeding edge of fan and acoustic technology innovation, and at this year’s show the company displayed its wide range of products, spanning fans and fan controllers, ancillaries and attenuators, VAV diffusers and ducting.
One of the stars of the show was Fantech’s enormous AP Actual Fan, which has a permanent magnet motor that’s a lot lighter and energy efficient than other products on the market.
“With the Permanent Magnet Motor it’s very energy efficient,” Wayne Norton, the marketing coordinator at Fantech explained. “We’ve got guide bands on the back which helps straighten the air as it’s traveling through, so you get a lot less energy loss.”
The Permanent Magnet technology not only allows for greater energy efficiency, but operates more quietly than other fans and has a smaller footprint.
“We’re able to develop products to be lighter because of the PC motors and Permanent Magnet motors,” Norton said. “All our fans in this particular range we are able to offer in-line duct fan power line and a new impeller which will allow it to move air with a small system. It’s lighter and saves space for the installers, and reduces noise levels.
"On just about every one of our new fans we are innovating we are focusing on noise levels.” Also on display was Fantech’s Jet Bank intelligent car park ventilation system, which took out the ARBS Industry Award in 2012.
“It’s super easy to install. With this system you don’t need to duct that air through the car park – it goes out through the car park itself,” Norton said. “It’s very energy-efficient and it’s got integrated smoke detection, so it complies with the CFA or the other authorities, which is a big thing.”
The company’s intelligent ventilation system can also be used in other commercial applications, providing consistent heating and cooling across the entirety of a room.
“The intelligent ventilation system uses low air into high air, and air plug systems on each outlet so it monitors airflow, monitors temperature from every outlet it’s distributed,” Norton said. “With this system you get maximum air mixing so you don’t get hot and cold spots. It will only push out the air that it needed to push out, it won’t make the room too cold or too hot.”
Norton believes the biggest innovation of recent years has been the increased processing power and capability of smart controls. With Fantech’s intelligent ventilation system products, building managers have their own in-built commissioning software that logs performance data, and the system itself will monitor the temperature of the room so as not to over- or under-compensate.
With the company’s LED EC fans, on-board processors monitor its performance internally. “It can be monitored anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection,” Norton said. “It monitors on the go.”
For details visit www.fantech.com.au.