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How to control two fans at once?

V3LCR0

V3LCR0

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My recent water cooled computer had an accident today when one of the tubes popped out from the cpu water block.

I decided i will clean everything out and fix my computer's noise problem. Most of my fans run around ~100 cfm.

This can be very annoying over time, and can cause hearing loss.

My question to you guys is; Is there a way to connect two fans to one fan control, on a fan controller.

Does the amps on the fans matter? Do they need to be the same size? What color (red, yellow, or black) would i need to solder together in order for this to work? Is there anything else i should really know?

I have eight fans in my case, and i would like to control all eight with this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811999171


I have looked around the forums for info regarding this, but i believe me asking these questions would give me the best results.

Thanks.
 
can't you just hook them up in parallel? if needed, i mess around with the molex (pretty easy to take out the pin and switch the wires around with a pen housing)
 
Yes, you can hook two fans per channel as long as you don't overload the channel. I prefer to parallel identical fans as then both fans run at nearly the same speed, but you can do different ones which will run at some ratio of speeds to each other. Places like SVC.com or jab-tech.com have the fan power Y cables. You can connect only one fan speed sensor at a time, so you'll have to pull the yellow (or whatever color your fan uses) wire from the 3-pin female fan connector on all but one fan per channel. If your fan controller doesn't pass the speed signal through, then you can probably ignore, but I'd have only one connected anyway as a "best practice".

.bh.
 
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