Best Anti-fog Eye Protection 2021?

Shamal said:
Wow! Is there not a chance that would blow your eyeballs out! Looks v powerful ??
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I'm trying to work out a way to keep the pressure up. If i put the fan exhaust next to the goggles, or run a very short tube, its like a leaf blower, but when its tubed up the pressure drops to the equivalent of a person exhaling, which to this point has been enough.

If i tape the box up, theres not enough airflow coming in for the fan to work.

So thats my next thing to tinker with.

Or try with 2 smaller fans in a series circuit, but last time  i ran out of time, tubing and patience

 
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I quickly put my setup together on a spare set of goggles (before I cut up my 'good' set).

I'll wire in a switch at some point, but initial results in testing so far are promising.  I will definitely use Sugru to mount it to cut down on noise/vibration a little as my Peltors tend to exacerbate things.

2200mAh (probably ~1800mAh 'real world') should give me way more than a game day's worth of continuous use.

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This is what I’m thinking about doing in my skull mask if I don’t use my Xfog for it, make the mask self contained fan either side with a battery in the middle and a on/off switch on one side 

( @Speedbird_666 sorry for nicking your image to show my idea as I’m not yet at the stage with my skull mask )

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MiK said:
This is what I’m thinking about doing in my skull mask if I don’t use my Xfog for it, make the mask self contained fan either side with a battery in the middle and a on/off switch on one side 

( @Speedbird_666 sorry for nicking your image to show my idea as I’m not yet at the stage with my skull mask )

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I quite like that setup.

Something I might experiment with - it would be easier to have a (smaller) battery on the goggles rather than use a wire to the back. Maybe one fan to suck, and the other to 'blow' to keep a constant flow of air from one side to the other?

 
In my current goggle-hack fan set up, both blow down into the goggles and that jeeps my glasses fog free 101% of the time the fan is running as I only switch them on when I start to see a bit of fog starting 

 
I'm sure I've seen a guy at UCAP Greenops that looks like he has a tiny fan hooked or mounted on the side arm of his regular safety glasses. No idea how that would work, it was about the size of one of those old ipod minis. Reckon anything like this could be done?

 
Stucks said:
I'm sure I've seen a guy at UCAP Greenops that looks like he has a tiny fan hooked or mounted on the side arm of his regular safety glasses. No idea how that would work, it was about the size of one of those old ipod minis. Reckon anything like this could be done?
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You mean something like this:




 
Stucks said:
I'm sure I've seen a guy at UCAP Greenops that looks like he has a tiny fan hooked or mounted on the side arm of his regular safety glasses. No idea how that would work, it was about the size of one of those old ipod minis. Reckon anything like this could be done?
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That will be me then. 

Doing a bit of testing currently and 5 games in with zero fog. That's a mixture of woodland and CQB sites. Mate used the 2nd set this weekend at UCAP Vendetta and zero fog for the whole game.

To set the scene a little I had sweat running into my eyes at some point and still the glasses were fog free.

For the design I could probably ditch the variable control as I run them at full speed most of the time. They probably could run at low or medium most of the time but because the fans are almost silent I just leave it on full. The whole thing runs off a small USB charger and lasts the whole day.View attachment 78777e View attachment 78778

it's not really a viable commercial product as it involves a bit of double sided sticky tape and using electrical tape to hold the wires to the legs of the glasses. I've only used it on my glasses and i need to make adjustments for a mates Wiley X frame (actually the legs are wider so I need to make the housing longer to fit over the bump).

 
Rogerborg said:
Nice fit.  I've never been quite sure what to do with a top fan. My solutions blow inwards from the side and across the lens.  On top, I'd probably try it blowing upwards rather than shoving hot sweaty brow-air back down, but I'd be prepared to flip it over if that doesn't work out.
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I have a very similar setup, an FMA fan ripped out carefully removed and fitted on on a pair of valken tangos with the thermal lens. First up, thermal lenses are magical, but on the occasional times they do fog, or I need to cool down a bit, the fan does just the job. 

I can post some pics later.

 
Thanks, chap, ordered up now. I was having trouble finding side-blowers like that on eBay.

As God is my witness, I will find a low profile glasses solution that works.

 
heroshark said:
I have the secret of 100% no fog polycarbonate eyepro. I just keep it to myself to keep up sales.
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Well yeah, lets all drill holes in the polycarb till its 80% not there and call it protection

Just get a Warq, end of all your fogging and protection worries

 
mightyjebus said:
That will be me then. 

Doing a bit of testing currently and 5 games in with zero fog. That's a mixture of woodland and CQB sites. Mate used the 2nd set this weekend at UCAP Vendetta and zero fog for the whole game.

To set the scene a little I had sweat running into my eyes at some point and still the glasses were fog free.

For the design I could probably ditch the variable control as I run them at full speed most of the time. They probably could run at low or medium most of the time but because the fans are almost silent I just leave it on full. The whole thing runs off a small USB charger and lasts the whole day.View attachment 78777e View attachment 78778

it's not really a viable commercial product as it involves a bit of double sided sticky tape and using electrical tape to hold the wires to the legs of the glasses. I've only used it on my glasses and i need to make adjustments for a mates Wiley X frame (actually the legs are wider so I need to make the housing longer to fit over the bump).
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That's the one! Those fans look tiny!! What fans are they?

 
Low tech solution here - dual pane glasses from Pyramex I-force slim.

Using them with FogStop they were perfect EXCEPT when you pelt it to the 4th floor of C wing and then stand in the corridor defending “Dave” (UCAP VENDATTA players will know!) when I started to fog up in the left lens only (my shooting eye and the only one I wear a contact lens in…weird!)

I then took a dremel to the outer gasket frame part (having removed it from the main glasses body) and opened up the scalloped areas to allow more air flow. Still can’t fit a BB through the gap and none should be coming directly UP or DOWN anyway!

Result is now that I do get a tiny strip of fog at the top of the lens, probably because the baseball cap slows the airflow but the main part of the lens stays clear.

Pics below show one side modified vs the standard vent size

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SSPKali said:
I then took a dremel to the outer gasket frame part (having removed it from the main glasses body) and opened up the scalloped areas to allow more air flow.
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Yup, I did exactly the same. Used with either Cat Crap, or (better for me) Revision wipes, iForces nearly work.  I'm on my 2nd set of inner lenses, just PETG plastic and double sided foam tape.  But on a humid day, standing still after running, and wearing lower face mesh, a fan is still the difference between victory and victimhood.

While I wait for those little side blowers to show up, I bought another set of generic EN166B goggles from Toolstation, dual paned them, poked ventilation holes around the seal with a hot awl, and cable tied a 50cm blower and tubing on.  Great success, and the blower is the key component, even if only for a few minutes a day.

 
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