Akasa Fan controller , 6 Fans ?

Bald-Eagle22 · 2 Jun 2007 at 09:02

Guys I have just bought this Akasa fan controller

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=OA-002-AK&tool=3

I am looking to run 6 fans from it , it does state only 4 .

Any ideas please ?

Matt7613 · 2 Jun 2007 at 09:57

Run the other 2 off the mobo?

simonnance · 2 Jun 2007 at 10:32

if they are low wattage fans you could run 2 or 3 off the same channel on the controler. Would require a tiny bit of wiring, but doable.

Borden · 2 Jun 2007 at 15:22

Just do as said above. I'm using a vantec nexus fan controller with 3 headers. It's running all the case fans in my case (4 in total). They are all high wattage panaflo fans and it runs fine.

Roll · 2 Jun 2007 at 15:23

I've done exactly what simonnance suggests with my fan controller and used a splitter like this to connect 2 fans to one of the channels.

So long as you stay within the limits of the power which the controller can supply its perfectly fine. The only drawback is that you can't control the speed of each fan individually.