Connecting more than one fan????

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I'm a noob obviously, and don't understand how you would hook up more than 1 fan, where would the second fan connect??? or is there a pigtail that comes off the harness? The pics I see don't show any pigtails that's why I'm confused

 

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pigtails?

what exactly are you talking about, hooking up what fan, to where, for what?

 

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Hooking up intake and exhaust fans, I want to hook up an 80mm intake fan on the front of my case and 2 80mm exhaust fans on the back and side but once I hook into the fan harness with one fan where do the harness's for the other fans hook up

 

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by pigtails what I mean is this, when you hook up a fan to the harness there can be wires coming back off that plug to allow another fan to hook into it but. I was looking at getting 2 smartfan II's but saw no pigtails so was wondering how I would hook them up

 

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i dont know if those are refered to as pigtails but i could be wrong

anyways, if you fan doesnt have any extensions off of it then i guess the rest is dependent on your power supply

My power supply has 3 chords with 3 molex's on each, i dedicate one to my drive, one to my CPU fan and then the 3'rd to my case fans

 

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Oh all mine are in use, my cpu fan is hooked up to my MB, so do you know where I can find fans that allow another to be hooked up?

 

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It depends on how your fans are tailed. Some fans come untailed (just bare wires) and you'll also find 3-pin and 4-pin connectors. The 4-pins can be connected directly to your power supply and these will often have an extra tail so that you can daisy chain them. If you have 3-pin connectors, you can get adapters to convert them to 4-pin or plug them into your motherboard.

 

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I've no molex's left on my power supply and am trying to find a way to MAKE more.

 

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what powersupply do you have, if you've run out then it prolly isnt that great of a PSU and you may want a new one.

But then, you still havnt told us

 

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some 300 watt pos

 

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I have an old Asus P4b and it has the plugs mounted on the mobo for monitering reasons, did you check to see if you have plugs marked chaissis fan on your mobo.you didnt mention what board you were using so just a thought.

 

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using a Biostar M7MIA but am upgrading to a Abit NF7-s

 

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geez guys, all you need is to get a y splitter for the power plugs

 

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LilBuddy said:

geez guys, all you need is to get a y splitter for the power plugs

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That would work to

 

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if your going to be overclocking I'd suggest you get a new PS altogether, especially if you are upgrading to an abit NF7

 

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LilBuddy said:

geez guys, all you need is to get a y splitter for the power plugs

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yea he could do that or based on

"some 300 watt pos"

like i thought it was, he could spend a very little amount on this

 

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is that gonna have enough molex coming off the PS, becasue I want to put at least 3 or 4 fans on, if it doesnt can I just use a bunch of y splitters to continue the chain?

 

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What's the gifference between an ADI Power Cable Splitterand a Regular Power Cable Splitter? http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=y+splitter the bottom two on this link also is there a limit to how many of these you can use

 

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anyone?

 

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LilBuddy said:

geez guys, all you need is to get a y splitter for the power plugs

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This is the same thing as the "pigtails" he was talking about. Check your local PC shop. They should have them. If all else fails and you can't find them, you could always just splice onto an empty molex.