[Cooling fan] What is a fan bearing? | Made in Taiwan Custom RV Fans and PC Cooling Fans Manufacturer | TITAN Technology Limited

| Founded in 1989, TITAN is an outstanding leader in thermal field, with a passion and elite team of engineers. Located in Taiwan and established a branch office in Germany. TITAN has great amounts of distributors in versatile area of the global. Our products seen all over the world and earning glorious reputation and trust. We expanded amounts of producing lines to fit various demands as well as built the manufacturing factory in Guang Dong, China, which has 460 employees and monthly producing over 1.2 million units at least basis.

[Cooling fan] What is a fan bearing?

The major function of fan bearing is to make fan blades operated fluently. The purpose of fan bearing is to reduce rotational friction and support axial loads. The fan bearing is the most critical factor in fan lifetime and fan performance. Without fan bearing, a cooling fan cannot work. When choosing a cooling fan, it considers not only airflow and static pressure but also the reliability of fan itself. It determines if a cooling fan can run consistently many years. The fan bearing is the critical role of fan.


Fan bearing comparison

Fan bearing typeRecommendLifetime
(25°)
NoiseUnit PriceTITAN Model

Sleeve Bearing

Operation: 25-40°C

Consider fan cost

25,000 hours

Quieter at low speed in early life

Lowest

S

One Ball & One Sleeve

Environment temperature is higher than 40°C35,000 hours

Quieter at high-speed

High

C

Two Ball Bearing

Environment temperature is higher than 40°C50,000 hours

Quieter at high-speed

highest

B

One Ball Bearing

1. Environment temperature is higher than 40°C
2. Suitable for Slim fan

50,000 hours

Quieter at high-speed 

Quieter than Two Ball bearing

Medium

Z-axis Bearing

1. Operation: 25-40°C

2. Consider longer fan lifetime

3. Consider balance performance and cost

60,000 hours

 

Low

Z

TITAN Fan Bearing Comparison Chart

TITAN lifetime and operation temperature comparison chart

TITAN Model Illustration

TITAN cooling fan model illustration

Brief Information of Fan Bearing: Sleeve bearing, ball bearing, and Z-Axis bearing

Sleeve Bearing

Sleeve bearing uses oil-base substances as lubrication to reduce friction in operation. The sleeve bearing is the most common bearing types of cooling fan and usually cheapest, but it has the problem of lubrication issue. If the lubricant of fan bearing evaporates and leaks, the fan system would be destroyed and became loudly. The sleeve bearing has a greater concentration of oil lubrication. Therefore, a sleeve bearing fan is most likely to evaporate and became noise in later life.

  1. Recommend: operation temperature between 25 - 40°C, consider lower fan cost
  2. Suitable for low-speed rate and below 90mm cooling fan.
  3. Lifetime (25°C): 25,000 hours
  4. Noise: Quieter at low speeds in early life
  5. Cost: Lowest
  6. TITAN bearing model: S
Ball Bearing

The ball bearing is a component of balls between the rings and designed to reduce friction and easily rotated. It has a longer lifetime (50,000 hours in 25°C) than sleeve bearing. A ball bearing fan is suitable for higher temperature operation and run more quietly at the high-speed but noisier at the low-speed.

  1. Recommend: operation environment is higher than 40°C
  2. Lifetime (25°C): 50,000 hours
  3. Noise: Quieter at high speeds
  4. Cost: Higher
  5. TITAN bearing model: B
Z-Axis Bearing

TITAN exclusive design fan bearing

TITAN Z-Axis fan bearing is a progress bearing which is fixed the weakness of sleeve bearing and ball bearing. It both has cheaper cost than ball bearing and longer lifetime and reliability than sleeve bearing. TITAN Z-axis bearing is reliable on the worldwide client as well.

  1. Recommend: Operation temperature between 25 - 40°C and need longer fan lifetime.
  2. Lifetime (25°C): 60,000 hours
  3. Noise: fixed the problem of concentration of oil in sleeve bearing.
  4. Cost: Low
  5. TITAN bearing model: Z
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[Cooling fan] What is a fan bearing? | Made in Taiwan Custom RV Fans and PC Cooling Fans Manufacturer | TITAN Technology Limited

Located in Taiwan since 1989, TITAN Technology Limited has been a cooling fans & computer cooler products manufacturer. Their main pc cooling fans, including computer coolers, cooling fans, phone coolers, CPU coolers, DC fans, PC cooling kits, laptop cooling pads and power inverters, which are CE, TUV, and UL safety certified, and the factory has obtained ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications.

Founded in 1989, TITAN is an outstanding leader in thermal field, with a passion and elite team of engineers. Located in Taiwan and established a branch office in Germany. TITAN has great amounts of distributors in versatile area of the global. Our products seen all over the world and earning glorious reputation and trust. We expanded amounts of producing lines to fit various demands as well as built the manufacturing factory in Guang Dong, China, which has 460 employees and monthly producing over 1.2 million units at least basis. With over 27 years of experience, TITAN has produced various types of cooling products, such as PC cooler, cooling fan, and mobile cooling, giving our customers a wide and high value selection of choices. With more than 27 years experience, TITAN focus on manufacturing and developing versatile cooling fan and computer cooler products to provide the best thermal cooling resolution.

TITAN has been offering customers high-quality RV fans and CPU coolers, both with advanced technology and 27 years of experience, TITAN ensures each customer's demands are met.