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Old 07-07-2011, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by tbomachines View Post
Except, regardless of how many blades it has, if they are all equal in length and spaced out evenly they will amplify like crazy. That's because each one would have the same wavelength relative to the last and following blade, they would all be generating identical pulses.

yes but at only one frequency, if it is a 12 blade it will amplify like crazy at 5 frequencies. think of it this way, a 12 blade fan has 6 2 blade fans, 3 4 blade fans, 4 3 blade fans and 2 6 blade fane buried inside of it, each of these produces its own amplified noise frequencies.
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