2 PC Fans 1 Power Supply???

southpaw

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Hello People,
I have 2 pc fans, Evercool 80mm tri-colored led and their specs are...
*DC12V 0.13A. 1.56W
At least that's what it says on the label. As for the power supply, it's a Linksys ps and it's specs are...
*12VDC 1000mA 23W

I have one fan wired up to the power supply and it's been working fine. I was wondering if I could wire the second one to the same ps in series or something like that???

Btw, I'm trying to use both of these as exhaust fans. :blsmoke:
 

WormSlayer

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There should be no problem running both fans in series - I have all kinds of fans and glowing crap wired up inside my case :)
 

Green Dave

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witch wires do you use for the 12 volt on the power supply for the fan???
I have tryed to hook up my comuter fans and can find the right wires
 

jimmyspaz

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There should be no problem running both fans in series - I have all kinds of fans and glowing crap wired up inside my case :)
Try wiring in parallel so if one fails both don't go out. You have plenty of headroom on that power supply to run both.You will be using 26mA on 1000 mA circiut.
 

OneCanSam

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witch wires do you use for the 12 volt on the power supply for the fan???
I have tryed to hook up my comuter fans and can find the right wires
I have one fan wired up to the power supply and it's been working fine. I was wondering if I could wire the second one to the same ps in series or something like that???

Btw, I'm trying to use both of these as exhaust fans. :blsmoke:
Absolutely, You can run many fans on a single molex conector. Just don't get carried away and exceed the PSU's draw.

Heres some extra info.

To make any 20 or 24 pin PC power supply turn on without a pc, you must bridge the green pin with any black pin. Many people use a paperclip for this, I recomend you simply take a 2" strip of wire, strip 1/4" off both sides of the wire, then use this wire to bridge the green and black pins on the 20 or 24 pin ATX connector.

Once it's on, there are many tricks, to loud a DC fan at 12volts, no problem, you can hard wire it to produce 7 volts uisng the old 7 volt trick
Still to loud or to much CFM? No problem, you can use the 5 volt trick

Lots of computer tricks for growing, for example, I never suffer from electrical noise and my MH and HPS have never shut off due to a power spike or whatnot. I simply have every light plugged into a decent size APC UPS. Been using this method for many years, and it's surprising many others do not do the same. It's far more inexpensive than some 'grow' controllers that do the same thing with blackouts and power spikes and such.

EDIT AND UPDATE: Just some food for thought, but you'd be better served running a Walmart $10 simple AC to DC voltage selectable power adapter. (Selectable 2,4,6,8,10,12 volts) I say this because your wasting electricity running a PC power supply to only run a few fans. If your in the USA, You could also go to All Electronics Corp - Parts, Supplies and Components or MPJA and buy a small 12v (or less DC output power supply. If you go to the fan manufacturers site, you could look up the min and max voltage (pay attention to the min voltage to power up the fans, and amperage draw for the fans your using, and if you want a quieter running fan, just get the DC power supply to provide that output.
 

lJamiel

CFL Cabinet Grower
PC Powersupplies only draw the power they need. At least thats what I've read numerous times around here.
 

OneCanSam

Well-Known Member
PC Powersupplies only draw the power they need. At least thats what I've read numerous times around here.
True enough but in standby, I believe they do draw more current than a stand alone simple AC/DC power adapter.

I loaned a friend my Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor, when I get it back I'll fire up a few PSU's and post some numbers about what they use when bridged as a stand alone fan power source.
 

JohnnyBravo

Well-Known Member
Absolutely, You can run many fans on a single molex conector. Just don't get carried away and exceed the PSU's draw.

Heres some extra info.

To make any 20 or 24 pin PC power supply turn on without a pc, you must bridge the green pin with any black pin. Many people use a paperclip for this, I recomend you simply take a 2" strip of wire, strip 1/4" off both sides of the wire, then use this wire to bridge the green and black pins on the 20 or 24 pin ATX connector.

Once it's on, there are many tricks, to loud a DC fan at 12volts, no problem, you can hard wire it to produce 7 volts uisng the old 7 volt trick
Still to loud or to much CFM? No problem, you can use the 5 volt trick

Lots of computer tricks for growing, for example, I never suffer from electrical noise and my MH and HPS have never shut off due to a power spike or whatnot. I simply have every light plugged into a decent size APC UPS. Been using this method for many years, and it's surprising many others do not do the same. It's far more inexpensive than some 'grow' controllers that do the same thing with blackouts and power spikes and such.

EDIT AND UPDATE: Just some food for thought, but you'd be better served running a Walmart $10 simple AC to DC voltage selectable power adapter. (Selectable 2,4,6,8,10,12 volts) I say this because your wasting electricity running a PC power supply to only run a few fans. If your in the USA, You could also go to All Electronics Corp - Parts, Supplies and Components or MPJA and buy a small 12v (or less DC output power supply. If you go to the fan manufacturers site, you could look up the min and max voltage (pay attention to the min voltage to power up the fans, and amperage draw for the fans your using, and if you want a quieter running fan, just get the DC power supply to provide that output.
thanks for the info
 

lJamiel

CFL Cabinet Grower
True enough but in standby, I believe they do draw more current than a stand alone simple AC/DC power adapter.

I loaned a friend my Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor, when I get it back I'll fire up a few PSU's and post some numbers about what they use when bridged as a stand alone fan power source.
Let me know when you do. I'm interested in the results. :blsmoke:
 
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