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Easiest Way To 12v The Fans!, Includes Instructions for 7 and 9 volt.

Grim187 Post #1

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i know a lot of you are still cutting the + wire on the fans and just wiring it to a 12v spot on the board, altho this dose work there isan easier way that doesn't require modifying the fans.

for a lesser fan speed cut the ground of both fans and run both ground wires to a power source (after doing the 12v fan mod).for 7v ground to this point: Xenon, Zephyr/Falcon/Opus/Jasperfor 9v ground to this point: Xenon, Zeyphr/Falcon/Opus/Jasper

Bottom of the Board:Yellow=12v Black=CPU Red=GPU

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(If your Having Trouble Understanding Click the Picture)ORTop of the Board:


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Bridge Black for CPU, Bridge Red For GPU.


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The Zephyr, Falcon, Opus and Jasper Board have the same voltage line to both fansso it wont be possible to 12 or 7v just one fan w/o cutting the wires.

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ORTop of the Board:


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Note: Sunon and Nidec Fans have Reversed Power Wires.


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If you plan to use a potentiometer to manually adjust the fan speed here is onethat is close to the right strength and here is how it should be used.

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brandogg Post #2

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That looks like a very easy mod to do, as well as a very easy mod to reverse if need be. My system runs very cool now, but Imay check that out as well, since it looks like it would be so easy to reverse if I couldn't handle the additional noise.

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this is a very easy and safe way to do a 12V mod.

Basically, that transistor connects the fan line to 12V on and off many times a second, creating a voltage on the fansomewhere between 0 and 12v.

Shorting the transistor essentially turns it on 100% of the time, so the fans will be at 12V. It does no damage to thetransistor, simply bypasses it.

This will also make your fans work if the transistor is blown (fans don't spin).

Another idea: if you put a potentiometer across the pins of the transistor, then you would be able to control how much youare "boosting" the fan speed. Potentiometer at highest resistance = stock fan speed, as it drops to zero the fans will speed upmore and more, until resistance = 0 and the fans are at 12V.


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plowmanjoe Post #4

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i like this new info. i've been thinking of doing the 12v fan mod for awhile now and now i think i do this one but i have a fewquestions.

i want to have variable fan speed control using a potentiometer but i have no clue what kind to get. i'm looking at radioshack's web site and there's a bunch of different ones, does it matter what i get?

also, what is a good way/ location to place this potentiometer? i already have one on/off switch for my xcm core coolermounted in the back and i had to take out some clips that hold the case together to make it work.

tinker77 Post #5

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Great info guys, thanks!!

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Jan 18 2008, 12:33 AM

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Very cool, it's far simpler than mucking about with the fan wires!

Thanks!

Grim187 Post #7

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QUOTE(plowmanjoe @ Jan 16 2008, 01:26 AM)

i like this new info. i've been thinking of doing the 12v fan mod for awhile now and now i think i do this one but i have a fewquestions.

i want to have variable fan speed control using a potentiometer but i have no clue what kind to get. i'm looking at radioshack's web site and there's a bunch of different ones, does it matter what i get?

also, what is a good way/ location to place this potentiometer? i already have one on/off switch for my xcm core coolermounted in the back and i had to take out some clips that hold the case together to make it work.


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a 5 or 1 k would be the best, im not sure you can find a 1k in the huge size, you want it to be as big as possible that way youcan mount it inside but have a knob on the outside.

remember you can always cut the ground wires and put them to a 5v source to do the 7v fan mod (except on the v2 and v3board)

which brings me to the v3 board, i finally got around to modifying the cooling system on a falcon i got in a couple months agoand it turns out if you wire the fans ground to 5v it will throw 0001, also the board is designed differently so the points tosolder for 12v are different, if i have time i will take it back apart and take pictures, if not i will get some posted of the nextone i get.

tinker77 Post #8

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I have a falcon board too, so I'll wait for you update. Meanwhile, you think I would safely be able to use "T-tap's" or "12VCase Fan Power Adapter" to do the 12v fan mod? ...both from llama.com, I like the T-tap's thingy but I don't know how wellit works...What would u recommend? Thanks in advance!

plowmanjoe Post #9

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i did this mod with a 5k potentiometer earlier today. soldering to those points was really hard for me but i did it. it works andall but now how i want it to. turning the nob doesn't do anything until the end. and at the end it shoots up to full power. sothere's not too much control. i'm thinking maybe i wires the potentiometer wrong. there's 3 spots on it to solder to. and isoldered the wires to the middle one and one of the outside ones. is that right? i just guessed, i'm not sure why there's 3points

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ReaperX_BR Post #10

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I didn't understand the pics

Rictorious Post #11

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Heh, well im guessing a part of the motherboard is zoomed in, its location showed by the little red lines eg. on the top side ofthe board pic, the middle part is zoomed in and the 4 small red lines shows its location

And you just have to solder the area shown by the thick red line to create the bridge. Please correct me if im wrong thoughcause im a noob

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tinker77 Post #12

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A nice detailed tutorial of this mod for all the n00bz here would be awesome!...

Grim187 Post #13

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QUOTE(tinker77 @ Jan 17 2008, 04:34 PM)

I have a falcon board too, so I'll wait for you update. Meanwhile, you think I would safely be able to use "T-tap's" or "12VCase Fan Power Adapter" to do the 12v fan mod? ...both from llama.com, I like the T-tap's thingy but I don't know how wellit works...What would u recommend? Thanks in advance!

don't use t-taps, if you really want to do it right now there's a big mosfet right around the same spot on the underside, justwire one of the legs to the head.

QUOTE(plowmanjoe @ Jan 17 2008, 10:45 PM)

i did this mod with a 5k potentiometer earlier today. soldering to those points was really hard for me but i did it. it worksand all but now how i want it to. turning the nob doesn't do anything until the end. and at the end it shoots up to full power.so there's not too much control. i'm thinking maybe i wires the potentiometer wrong. there's 3 spots on it to solder to. and isoldered the wires to the middle one and one of the outside ones. is that right? i just guessed, i'm not sure why there's 3points


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if you want more control put the middle leg to the right side of the onboard transistor and get 12v and 5v from under thepower connector that way you should be able to use the pet to go from 5v all the way to 12v.

Grim187 Post #14

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UpdateAdded: v3 Falcon, Simple 7v.

Dose anyone have high rez pix of the V2 Zephyr?

bugman72 Post #15

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I don't know if anyone else has had the same results as I did with this mod, but I thought it might be worth mentioning. I wasupgrading a friend's 360 for increased cooling and tried this method. The result was not what I expected. While I could tellthat there was an increase in the speed of the fans, they still weren't close to what my 360's fan output is by cutting the wiresand tapping into the 12V on the mobo. I went back in, removed the jumper, cut the brown and red wires on the fan, solderedto the 12V spot on the mobo and the fans were NOTICEABLY faster with a greater amount of output. Before, the intake grille


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would barely hold a 3" square piece of paper. After cutting the wires, you could hold the piece of paper about 1/4" from thegrille and it would suck to it.

Maybe something wasn't quite right with the contact points on this unit (never RLOD'd newer unit) but I don't think this wouldbe as effective as cutting the wires. Just my $0.02 worth.

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