On 2012-05-15, at 14:25, Marko Mäkelä wrote: >> The most quick'n dirty approach that worked surprisingly well was to drive 12V fans with 5V (or 6-7 when 5 was too little to give the fan good spin) and still having enough airflow to keep the temperature at reasonable level with enormously reduced noise. > > Yeah, connect the fan between the 12V and 5V rails, No, please don't ;-) > and if it fails in short circuit, it will take all the 5V circuitry as collateral damage. I am not sure if that has ever happened to anyone, though. It would not be a big loss on PC hardware, but we are talking C= valuables here. :-) Exactly! :-) Even if I see the possibility of a fan shorting both lines as very low.. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-05-15 14:00:15
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