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Wiring a case fan
I have this tower case with a side fan, but a while ago I needed the
fan's connector to shove into a tivo. Now I have a fan with two leads coming out of it. One red and one black with a red stripe. I decided to shove the red wire into the red female part of a power connector and the black with red stripe wire into the black female part of the same power connector. I taped it up and tested it on another machine. It runs, no sparks, no resets, etc. I'm wondering if I did this correctly. As you well know there are two black wires next to each other on these power connectors. Did I pick the wrong one? I'm guessing one is grounded and the other isn't? -- Mike Block Banner Ads Now http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html |
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"Mike245" wrote in message news:KQhUc.171624$eM2.92479@attbi_s51... I have this tower case with a side fan, but a while ago I needed the fan's connector to shove into a tivo. Now I have a fan with two leads coming out of it. One red and one black with a red stripe. I decided to shove the red wire into the red female part of a power connector and the black with red stripe wire into the black female part of the same power connector. I taped it up and tested it on another machine. It runs, no sparks, no resets, etc. I'm wondering if I did this correctly. As you well know there are two black wires next to each other on these power connectors. Did I pick the wrong one? I'm guessing one is grounded and the other isn't? -- Mike Block Banner Ads Now http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html Assuming its a 12 Volt fan (and most are), no this is not correct. You need to carefully splice the red fan wire into a yellow wire feed and the black wire into the neighbouring black wire (in fact any black wire should do because under ATX PSU convention all black wires should be ground). The way you've hooked it up, its crrently only getting 5 Volts (so will be running slowley, if at all). If you want a custom made lead which does it all for you they are available to buy. Here in the UK Kustom PCs sell them he http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1902.html Paul |
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Paul Murphy wrote:
you've hooked it up, its crrently only getting 5 Volts (so will be running slowley, if at all). Ah, no wonder its so slow. Thanks. -- Mike Block Banner Ads Now http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html |
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