Re: 110CFM Laptop Cooler

**Tonk** · 11-28-2008, 02:16 PM

i wonder how people dig up a 16 month old thread, and add to it like it was posted yesterday =P

illegal bumping, offence, 5 yard penalty, repeat 5th down

**WhiskeySix** · 11-28-2008, 02:18 PM

hahahaha... ah well.. good bump.. need a 900 more views to get to 30k views!!

**Tonk** · 11-28-2008, 07:32 PM

lol, as stated above, i saw it on hackaday about a year and a half ago and nearly shat myself when i clicked on the link and saw who and where it took me

**mpx** · 04-13-2011, 12:33 PM

can you explain in more detail the wiring you did?
you said you connected the fan to the power supply (red-red, black-black), but how did you add the speed control? what about the yellow cable going out of the fan? how did you connect the controller to power?

I would appreciate your response.

**WhiskeySix** · 04-13-2011, 12:41 PM

It's been a while, but I believe the fan has two 'wires' coming out of it. One [red/black] goes to the power-supply, and the other [yellow] goes to the knob.

If you look at this, you can see the separate connectors: http://goo.gl/nPqTs

The yellow wire from the fan is the speed control - it just plugs-in to the knob.

Then you just need to connect the power to a 12v supply. In this case, I had a 12v wall-wart type supply. Make sure you connect positive to positive and negative to negative. ( If you wire it in reverse polarity, it shouldn't break anything - the fan will just spin the wrong way

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Let me know if I can be more specific.

**WhiskeySix** · 04-13-2011, 12:50 PM

hmm... actually I think that's not quite right <squint> Yeah, ok, there are actually THREE plugs it looks like.

OK, yeah, that yellow wire is actually just another power-connector. The fan can either run off a big 12v connector coming directly from a PC's power-supply, OR it can run of motherboard power using the small yellow connector.

So, in summary:

- leave the yellow wire unconnceted
- splice in the red/black wire
- connect wire from the speed-control knob to the 'third' connector on the fan

**WhiskeySix** · 04-13-2011, 12:53 PM

Also, WOW! 43k views? Apo, I'll take my $0.043 in adsense-revenue in small, unmarked coins.

**acsam** · 04-16-2011, 11:28 PM

you know if i can make 2 of these or some how make it that i can sit my PS3 on top of it then its GOLD! this will be a very cool thing to use to cool the PS3 make 2 and lay the PS3 on each "cooler"

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