Not any time soon I'm afraid.
While we are still waiting for some objective empirical measurements on the new Defender frost fan's performance, more advertising has rolled out of what I can only assume is FMR's fertile imagination.
The latest offering that appeared in my e-mail in-box is resplendent with inaccuracies (The Defender's fans are described as aluminium, which might be right, but it contradicts earlier information that they are a composite material).
But that's hardly the most interesting part. That is saved for the last page where they basically bag the oppositions fans and provide some interesting noise data. I thought I had a good range of official testing information, but I'm afraid that none of it agrees with the 'data' that is reproduced there for the Frost Boss or Orchard Rite fans. If the intention is to present new testing data, this falls far short of acceptable but it does approach 'Libel' which I'm informed by Wikipedia means "Communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image.". Sounds about right.
But wait there's more...
More claims of no special audible characteristics.... (Yawn, getting tired now).
Gratuitous use of meteorological terms "during expected normal operating conditions in meteorological category 6" (this particular category is for strong downwind conditions which are the worst possible for acoustic measurements) .
And as for the graph! Where to begin. In spite of the libel issue raising its ugly head again, I actually have no idea what it means. The University of Canterbury apparently do know, although it is difficult to tell as the reference is made to 'UOC'. Now I believe that the University of Canterbury will normally use 'UoC' or 'UC' as an abbreviation, however the Open University of Catalonia apparently use 'UOC'. So perhaps it's them? That would explain the reason that a lot of this documentation appears to be lost in translation.
When will the accuracy begin?
About the same time the Defender gets taken seriously.
Seriously.
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