Is this safe?

[q149]

Is it safe to hook up fans by splicing them into a power cable, splicing the red wire into the yellow wire on the power cable and the black wire into the black wire next to the yellow one on the power cable?............... thx

 

[Illah]

Yeah, provided you do a decent splice.

--Illah

 

[Captain Slug]

Yeah, provided you do a decent splice.

--Illah

And cover your connections up with electrical tape or heatshrink. You wouldn't want your 12v line grounding out on anything.

This is how 4-pin fans are connected and I've reqired several older bare lead fans to a molex connecter.

 

[q149]

cool, thx
btw does it matter how many fans i hook up to one power cable

 

[NBK19]

I wouldn't be putting to many on one cable. One Cable should be able to hold atleast 4-5 fans though. Just no Juice Drainers.

 

[Gnufsh]

As long as you don't draw too much current it should be just fine. 4 or 5 would be no problem at all.