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bigjimmyauk

bigjimmyauk

bigjimmyauk

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Right i somehow need to hook up 4x120mm viper fans to one channel

Problem being vipers are 4 pin Pwm and the only splitter cable i can find is for 3 pin fans

I thought i could maybe somehow solder the wires from all 4 fans together

my idea was to remove the PWM wire from all 4 fans

remove the Green tachometer wire from 3 of the fans

Solder all the 12v and ground wires together to the plug which still has the tach wire on it

reason being is i think if i soldered 4 tach wires together it would possibly confuse the readout on the fan controller so by only having 1 tach wire for four fans i still get an accurate readout for all of them , roughly speaking
 
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bigjimmyauk said:
Well i'll be damned i did not see that 5 way version

i already have 2 of the 3 way version but for some reason they don't work if you link them together

Will grab one now :)
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Neither did I 'til someone pointed it out to me. Now when someone asks for one, thats the first thing I link to :D
 
These things look great :) Would I be able increase and decrese the fan speed of all my case fans like I can with my cpu fan now? Or do all the fans have to be the exact same?
 
Deception said:
They have to be 4 pin PWM fans.
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Their the very small connectors arnt they, similer to the one's used on CPU fans. Ya all my fans have those as well as the usual molex connector. I think I'll get one of those the next time I buy a few things from overclockers because it would be great to change the speed of the fans other than just the CPU cooler's fan :)
 
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