Thermaltake Blue-Eye LED CASE FAN A1640 help...

[mikeyngo]

My dumb mistake. I recently purchase 6 of Thermaltake blue-eye fans that blinks red when the hard drive is reading. I was thinking, why not have 6 fans blinking instead of one. I didn't realize until I got them that only one fan can be connected to the 2 male connection on the motherboard.

I was wondering, is there a spliter for this type of connection? Or is there any way can I use all my fans to blink when the hard drive is reading? If not, then these fans are just a waste.

Please let me know. Thanks.

 

[MTDEW]

I'm in the same boat with my Thermaltake Smart Case fans, they have blue lights that connect to the power LED header and red ones that connect to hdd LED header on the mobo.

At 1st i thought about splicing the wires or whatever also.

but after reading the warning in the instruction sheet that came with the fans, i decided not to.

It says.
Do not try to light up both the original case LED AND the fan LED together in case the voltage isnt sufficient enough to support such a high load. (or something like that)

I'm assuming this means, that multiple lights hooked to the mobo header for the LEDs may overload and burn out the LED header on the mobo.

But like i said I'm assuming this!
Maybe someone else who has tried this or knows for sure will post a comment.

So heres a bump. 😀

 

[NewbieCanadian]

I was thinking of picking up a few of those fans, as they list a 21/28 dBA/CFM ratio.

LED issues aside, are they any good?

 

[mikeyngo]

bump

 

[OulOat]

DO NOT try to hook up more than one coolmod to the your mobo unless you want to ruin your mobo. Same reason why you shouldn't hook up Tornados or Deltas to your mobo fan headers. If you want to have your mobo control the flashing, you have to build/buy yourself an opamp, or something similar. I would only suggest this if you understand circuits.