Adding Convection

[Orngrimm]

We seem to forget that a gas oven creates convection naturally anyway

It would seem to me that there might be an easy way to add convection to an existing electric oven.

[seattleuserfriendly]

This reminds me of an old joke. A man is flying in a hot air balloon when he realizes he is lost. He reduces his altitude and spots a man in a field below. He lowers the balloon toward the man and shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I am late to meet a friend, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man below says, “I’m happy to help. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude.”

After a brief pause, the balloonist declares: “You must be a lawyer.”

“I am” replies the man. “How did you know?”

“Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me I am sure is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”

I'm looking for a simple solution where a fan can be placed in an electric oven without drilling. I'm sure there is a way that it can be placed on the floor or shelf with current coming from the outside without drilling. But if that's impossible, just let me know. The details and the debates may be a way engineers communicate, but I'm looking for a simple answer.

There are a lot of answers here. I wish one addressed the question as placed. Information dumps, responding to more convenient questions, tangents do show people that you are intelligent. They just aren't really helpful.

[Orngrimm]

The problem is that a motor and for that case also electronics and a LOT of plastics dont fare well in 200+°C environment.
So just placing a fan with a cable attached to an outside source is feasable up to like 70°C. No more for sure!It is simple physics: Everything you want to operate inside an oven has to withstand the temperature within said oven.
Cables need to be silicone or even PTFE, Plastics need to be Thermoset and not Thermoplast, Electronics need to be designed to withstand those hellish temps (Say goodbye to all electrolytic caps, Almost all chips will fail quite fast in this temperature), Bearings need to be designed to work with the thermal expansion expected, and so on and on... Physics.

But i gave you an option which would work without drilling and no melting. See viewtopic.php?p=358#p358

I converted my oven once temporarely to convection to dry my biltong at 50°C. I just placed a computer-fan in there and fed the 2 small wires thru the door-sealing to my PSU outside. But anything higher than 50° i wouldt really dare. Even the 50°C was higher then the spec of this fan (40°C ambient)

So to give an answer to your previous post: I gave you a perfectly viable answer as well as Jack at viewtopic.php?p=315#p315
If you dont even read those suggestions which would WORK then we cannot help you any further, sorry. But as we gave you the same idea and input multiple times, showed you the shortcomings of other solutions, yet you still dont see the options given to you in plain sight, it is a bit strange to indirectly tell us we only give you useless (yet correct) answers. We gave you solutions. Use them.