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A question and a warning.
As I'm sure you know Akasa have a newish fan controller out. It's got four channels and a nice LCD display to monitor temperatures and fan speeds. You can also adjust the temperatures and fan speeds that the built in alarm goes of at. It's actually quite well put together and looks the part.
The reason I bought one was my belief that it would dynamically adjust fan speed with temperature. I believed this mainly because the overclockers.co.uk web site described it thus:
"The Akasa fan controller allows you to control the speed of up to four fans, monitors temperatures within your system with the supplied four thermal probes. You can set your fans on AUTO thermal adjustment so they adjust in speed according to their surrounding environment."
This is also backed up by the Akasa web site that lists the features as:
So I buy one of these (but not from overclockers.co.uk because I could get it for about £8 less elsewhere), have a play with it, and can find no fan control facilities beyond the four obvious speed control knobs.
Somewhat perturbed I sent an email to Akasa in the UK and got this reply:
Hi Alan
Thanks for your mail
There is a mis-understanding of the wording.
"Auto thermal adjustment" means you can set the Temp. alarm
to automatically activate if the component reaches the set temp.
You cannot vary the speed of the fans automatically, this
is not possible with this type of equipment because there are several
variables including different types of fan specs.
Sorry for any confusion.
Regards
Adrian Young
Product Manager.
I felt that this basically acused me of been too stupid to read english, so I sent an immediate reponse and have yet to recieve any reply. I also forwarded the email to overclockers.co.uk so they could correct their web site (which they haven't 6 days later).
Has anyone else got one of these controllers? Does it automatically control fan speed? Why are overclockers.co.uk still labouring under the impression it does? Am I too stupid to read english?
Answers on a postcard.
As I'm sure you know Akasa have a newish fan controller out. It's got four channels and a nice LCD display to monitor temperatures and fan speeds. You can also adjust the temperatures and fan speeds that the built in alarm goes of at. It's actually quite well put together and looks the part.
The reason I bought one was my belief that it would dynamically adjust fan speed with temperature. I believed this mainly because the overclockers.co.uk web site described it thus:
"The Akasa fan controller allows you to control the speed of up to four fans, monitors temperatures within your system with the supplied four thermal probes. You can set your fans on AUTO thermal adjustment so they adjust in speed according to their surrounding environment."
This is also backed up by the Akasa web site that lists the features as:
Speed control for 4 fans
Thermal monitoring and auto thermal adjustment (highlighting added by me)
Multi function LED display
7 colour LED display option
Audio alarm for fan failure and temperature rise
Auto memory
5 colour fascia panels
Fits Standard 5 1/4" Drive Bay
So I buy one of these (but not from overclockers.co.uk because I could get it for about £8 less elsewhere), have a play with it, and can find no fan control facilities beyond the four obvious speed control knobs.
Somewhat perturbed I sent an email to Akasa in the UK and got this reply:
Hi Alan
Thanks for your mail
There is a mis-understanding of the wording.
"Auto thermal adjustment" means you can set the Temp. alarm
to automatically activate if the component reaches the set temp.
You cannot vary the speed of the fans automatically, this
is not possible with this type of equipment because there are several
variables including different types of fan specs.
Sorry for any confusion.
Regards
Adrian Young
Product Manager.
I felt that this basically acused me of been too stupid to read english, so I sent an immediate reponse and have yet to recieve any reply. I also forwarded the email to overclockers.co.uk so they could correct their web site (which they haven't 6 days later).
Has anyone else got one of these controllers? Does it automatically control fan speed? Why are overclockers.co.uk still labouring under the impression it does? Am I too stupid to read english?
Answers on a postcard.
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