Inline fan for dryer hose

S-F · 12-15-11, 05:30 AM

A fellow I work with some times yesterday told me that their dryer vent is pretty long so he installed an inline fan. He said his cloths dry in 1/2 the time now. Here the building code says that the vent can't exceed 20' and you subtract 5' for every 90° turn. Mine is probably about 10" and I have two 90¯ turns and it takes me 1 hour and 15 minutes to dry a load. So I'm thinking about putting a fan in the duct work. It's an electric dryer so I'm assuming I can put a relay in somewhere that will fire up the fan when the dryer is running. Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about this?

12-15-11, 05:30 AM	#1
S-F You Ain't Me Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northampton MA Posts: 662 Thanks: 6 Thanked 71 Times in 58 Posts	Inline fan for dryer hose A fellow I work with some times yesterday told me that their dryer vent is pretty long so he installed an inline fan. He said his cloths dry in 1/2 the time now. Here the building code says that the vent can't exceed 20' and you subtract 5' for every 90° turn. Mine is probably about 10" and I have two 90¯ turns and it takes me 1 hour and 15 minutes to dry a load. So I'm thinking about putting a fan in the duct work. It's an electric dryer so I'm assuming I can put a relay in somewhere that will fire up the fan when the dryer is running. Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about this?