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Originally Posted by alteredego Okay, so the 3 cpu fans and the 3 fan control panel are on the way. Now I am looking at power supplies to power the fans/control panel. First thing I would like to know is how many watt power supply should I be looking for? The second is, Do I need to do any spicing of wires or will the control panel have have an adapter that plugs directly into the power supply? |
Alteredego, a 12V adapter will cost you at least $5 bucks and would need to be spliced in. That can be found back in the thread.
n_d_shadows post before you is a good one. You can use a PC power source. A small one can be purchased for $20 bucks. If your fans came with plugs (and if you ordered the fans I had posted a few posts back, they did).
Then the fans will simply plug into the controller. The controller will plug into the power scource. The power source into the wall. Nice and neatly
I'm parting out a computer on Ebay right now. I kept the power source. But I agree with n_d_shadows regardless of whether I had the source already or not. When I was looking at power source prices to see if I could get any money for mine on Ebay. I saw them for $20 brand new at the computer store (CompUSA) At that price, you can go with that and just plug it all in.
Subtract the price of the adapter, and your paying $14/$15 bucks to skip all the splicing. Otherwise you can find the power hookup on the controller and splice it in....but I found the power source to be better, And "still" a whole lot cheaper than any other fan set-up.
*** if you buy a comp power source, the smallest would work fine. It will only be used for fans...Power sources are made to run cd burners etc.