The little fan in our elliptical has been on the fritz for a while now and has finally given out the ghost. Even though it doesn't seem like it'd do much, having that airflow really helped when I'm properly powering along and it's VERY noticeable how much hotter I'm getting without it running. I popped the console off last week and opened it up but it's all pretty well sealed away so I wasn't able to get into the motor itself to figure out what happened (I suspect it's had a bunch of sweat get into it and rust something).
So I decided "Fuck it, let's go whole hog" and ordered a nice big 40cm wall fan, it arrived today and I just mounted it, and it's an absolute unqualified success. I've got it at just the right angle so the whole of my torso gets nice and breezy but it's not blowing directly in my face. 👌🏻 It has three speeds, even at the lowest it's lovely and I've got two higher speeds I can crank it to if need be. Plus it has a little remote that can live underneath the tablet holder on the elliptical so I can turn it up without needing to top and lean awkwardly over.
