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 We get around a 1C boost to the fresh air from loft heat exchange with the duct. The loft is consistently between 4 and 15 C hotter than the outside air and even at night boosts heat in the fresh air duct to the living room. An unanticipated benifit

4 port fan working

 Looking at the specifications of propitiatory systems it seems that the fans are nothing special. They typically use Axial flow fans with AC voltage motors around 60 Watts seems suitable for our house. In order to allow me to do this without an electrical certificate my system is entirely 12 volt.  The fans I have are pretty quiet to so it seems like win win to me less that US$30 each for the 60 W devices and US$16 for the boost fans. Computer fans are a good low cost option. Quiet long lived and they have built in speed controllers too. I am using two fan types in the system. I bought them cheapef than this Specifications : -- Size: approx. 120*120*38 mm -- Voltage: 12(V) -- Blast Capacity: 280.38CFM -- Current: 5.0A -- Rotate Speed: 7500CPM(r/min) -- Noise Level: 64DBA -- Wind Pressure: 24.60 mmH2O -- Bearing: High precision double ball bearing -- Operating Temperature: -10℃ ~ + 70℃ -- Storage Temperature: -40℃~+70℃ -- Power range: Plus or minus 15% of rated power supply --...

First things first an experiment. I had been looking around at various homemade ERV core designs and eventually decided to try a Coroplast design. The experimental core was tiny 12 X 12 X 12 cm  using 3 mm Coroplast Nice isn't it :) 20 80 mm PC cooling fans at a fixed speed four temperature probes. Here is the full scale one around 40 X 40 X 35 cm using 6 mm Coroplast A Wemos D1/R2 for instrumentation sending temperatures via MQTT to Node-Red. I'm was not totally convinced by the numbers but it did definitely exchange significant amounts of heat. I checked the calibration and it was good compared to my multi-meter TC probe. In any case it seems to work even at such a small scale. Never did understand why it seems to gain more heat that it lost from the exhaust steam, checked for leaks there were none. Any way  a hairdryer experiment showed it worked and heat was transferred too so I was happy that it would probably work at a larger scale.