[Wiltshire] Computer hardware - case fans

David Fletcher dave at thefletchers.net
Wed Oct 28 00:36:19 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009, Robert Longbottom wrote:
> David Fletcher wrote:
> > Does anybody know of such a thing as a 60mm temperature controlled case 
fan 
> > with a remote sensor?
> >
> > I want to mount it so that it blows air into the case rather than suck it 
out, 
> > hence the desire for a remote sensor. The objective is to direct some of 
the 
> > incoming air across the heat sinks of a "fanless" motherboard with minimum 
> > acoustic noise.
> >
> > Failing temperature control a switch to set the speed would do. My current 
> > desktop case has a switched speed controlled fan but it's much larger than 
> > 60mm.
> >
> > Dave
> >   
> I bought a fan speed controller module from Maplin to slow down one of 
> the fans on an old PC, works quite nicely and gives a good constanly 
> varying range of speed settings.
> 
> http://maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46921
> 
Thanks. That's useful to know.

Dave



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