Fan controller help please.

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Hey everybody, :)

I was just wondering if theres a way of controlling three sets of 3pin fans.

This is what I was thinking,

I will be watercooling my rig soonish, hopefully, and want to have 3 seperate sets of fans, 3 fans for the radiator, 2 fans for intake and 1 fan for exhaust at the back of the case. :D

I would also like each set to be controlled individually (software controlled would actually be awesome). I'm not sure if theres a way to do this without making the back of my case stupidly messy. :mad:

Also, as I said before all of these fans have 3pin connectors and I don't want to have molex connectors for each fan (or maby I could have one for each set?).

Anyone got any suggestions, I'm pretty lost on this one. :(
 
3 sets of 3 pins? Can you be more specific? You mean 3 fans? Because the majority of fan controllers will control both molex and 3 pin.

I just bought a NZXT Sentry 2 and it came with both Molex and 3 pin cabling
 
What sort of budget?

The Aquaero controllers have the best software by far.

The Lamptron FC5 V2 is a pretty good controller for the money
 
Okay sorry, I have 6 fans in total all with 3 pin connectors (not pwm) and I want there to be 3 "channels"? :confused:

3 Fans for the rad
2 Fans for intake
1 Fan for exhaust

I would like each set of fans to be controlled individually, as well as minimising cabling.

The budget is negotiable really, if there are a few controllers that do all of the things above then I'll buy the cheapest. (depending on quality) :D
 
Aquareo for what you want, the basic one without the lcd screens is good value for money and will control everything happily.

Don't both with the nzxt ones, pretty poorly made IMHO. I'd probably avoid anything with temperature sensors if you want neat cabling. I believe you can use internal hardware temperature monitors to determine fan speeds using the aquareos.
 
lrlcr said:
Aquareo for what you want, the basic one without the lcd screens is good value for money and will control everything happily.

Don't both with the nzxt ones, pretty poorly made IMHO. I'd probably avoid anything with temperature sensors if you want neat cabling. I believe you can use internal hardware temperature monitors to determine fan speeds using the aquareos.
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tread carefully, i'm researching fan controllers at the moment, and came across a youtube video of one guy who tried to use a 3 pin splitter to control two fans with one port on the kaze master, and the some of the resistors blew. He was an electronics guy so he replaced them. So there will be some that will not be able to handle it, so go by personal recommendations of people who know from experience, not just a hunch.
 
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Morning all, :D

So I've been searching around to find a decent 6 channel controller and the ones that I liked seem to have bad reviews, Akasa FC. SIX and Lamptron FC2.

I could skip the controll part and buy one of these, Akasa FLEXA FP5 stick a reduction cable on the end of the pwm motherboard header of the FLEXA FP5 so all 6 fans are running on 7 volts. Would that work? :confused:

I got a bunch of reduction cables laying around so I could connect 5 fans to the FLEXA FP5 and have another fan connected to the motherboard normally, this would reduce the cabling around the motherboard while having all 6 fans running quieter. :o

I did have a look at the Aquaero controllers and even the mCubed HFX 113 T-Balancer but the Aquaero are overly expensive and even through the mCubed HFX 113 T-Balancer is around the maximum I would like to spend doesn't have enough fan connectors. :(
 
Having said that though, could I connect three FLEXA FP5's to the T-Balancer connectors, then have the T-Balancer to control the 3 seperate FLEXA FP5's like they were channels?
 
lrlcr said:
Don't both with the nzxt ones, pretty poorly made IMHO, I'd probably avoid anything with temperature sensors if you want neat cabling. I believe you can use internal hardware temperature monitors to determine fan speeds using the aquareos.
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The NZXT Sentry 2 that I bought second hand seems pretty well made to me

But I totally agree with what you mean about the temp sensors, it's impossible to have a clean, well cable managed system when you have temp sensors running round the entire case lol
 
just bought an running the Akasa FC. SIX and i love it. five fans on it at the moment but 30w on each channel i guess you could run two or three fans on each one..

not sure what to add does everything ti says on the tin. only thing is leds can only be switched off when fans at zero but doesnt ever both me..

ask in a can answer anything for you
 
MAXIBOY said:
just bought an running the Akasa FC. SIX and i love it. five fans on it at the moment but 30w on each channel i guess you could run two or three fans on each one..

not sure what to add does everything ti says on the tin. only thing is leds can only be switched off when fans at zero but doesnt ever both me..

ask in a can answer anything for you
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Yeah, that one was one of the controllers I looked at first. Looks very sleek and the leds would go with my rig. :p

But I saw the bad reviews on some other website, and well, I think I'm going to wait before picking a controller or intill I have sorted the components for watercooling.

Thanks anyway guys. :)
 
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