Fan connector

[rjtaylor]

Hi

hoping someone can help. I have a fan connected with the connector shown below:



id like to run a second fan as a slave using the same power cable for both fans. Is that possible? I can’t find a splitter cable with this adaptor type.

Any help much appreciated.

thanks

 

[rjtaylor]

What system is it? What brand and model? Maybe with that info we can find some place to get your connectors from.

About all you can do is splice a 2nd fan socket to plug 2nd fan into or just splice fan lead into what you have. Either way will work, but you have to at least strip of a little insulation off of existing wires to splice new wires into it.

Its actually for a light fitting, cooled by 2 fans that look like they came straight out of a PC. So no idea on branding... I had hoped connection was standard.
So I'll splice as you suggest. Assume 11A / 0.5mm2 will be the right cable?

Thanks.

 

[rjtaylor]

Don't know if that's good enough or not without knowing fan specs. Farnel chart shows 0.5mm2 diameter wire rated about 3amp, and 1.0mm2 being 10amp so probably okay, but I would rather error with using too big a wire size than take a chance on being too small and having it burn out.
www.farnell.com/datasheets/1829275.pdf

many thanks again.
Ok will go for 1mm2 and hope all ok.
Again, appreciated.