Antec true 430 kinwinwin 424 case fan

[rakochan]

Antec true 430 PSU and connectors. The antec psu came with 1 harness with two - 4 pin plugs that say fan only fan only, one 3 pin connector with two wires says psu power supply.

I installed a cpu fanvantec tornado comes with one 2 pin plug and one yellow single pin plug.

My Kingwin 424 case comes with 3 case fans with a rheostat for speed control.
My mother board Abit NF7-S V 2.0 has 3 fan connectors on the board one for cpu fan, one says cha fan1 , the other pwr fan 1

The kingwin case has 3 fans with a rheostat to control the fan speed it comes with a harness two wire black and yellow and 2, 4 pin molly connectors.
My antec true 430 comes with a harness with two, 4 pin connectors says fan only i connected them together with the connectors coming from the case.

The rheostat fan control does not work (turned clock wise anti clockwise the fan speed stays same)the two front case fans do not work. I think the other fans are working throught the MOBO hookup, no power going to the rheostat i guess i got to check with a volt ohm meter.

However the rear case fan,cpu fan, the radeon 9800 pro fan work.


Any suggesstions i think i have to tap into one of these wires to get power to the rheostat.

 

[Bad Dude]

You might just use the regular 4 pin plug rather than one of the two that says "fan only." The fan only is lower voltage than the regular plugs.

 

[Dman877]

Fan-only plugs vary voltage output based on psu load from 5 to 12v. Depending on the psu and workload i.e. hardware power requirements, this might leave your fans at 5v all the time.

 

[mechBgon]

Do not plug the case's rheostat into the power supply's Fan-Only plug, plug it into a standard four-pin plug instead.

Do not plug the Tornado into the power supply's Fan-Only plug. It draws dangerous amounts of amperage, and I don't think Antec had Tornados in mind when they designed their fan-control circuitry. The Tornado may pull too much amperage to safely plug into the case's rheostat, too.

Suggestion: don't use ultra-output fans like the Tornado in the first place

 

[ghoti]

mechBgon,
Your guide looks great!
Thanks for your help and all your work.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: ghoti
mechBgon,
Your guide looks great!
Thanks for your help and all your work.