Led mod for the intake 9CM Enermax Fan

[Vulpes]

I wanted to have a big fan in front of my case, also I want it to be adjustable, and finally I wanted leds!

I have bought a couple of enermax (they got 9CM fans (120mm wouldn’t fit in my case - bah!) and I drilled a hole in the front with the dremel tool (aluminum case made the job done easy) and I also drilled a circular hole on the front plastic bezel since it didn’t had any vent holes. That hole + leds would look pretty cool I thought, so I went ahead and purchased bunch of ultra bright leds from a guy, I bought 4 of blue red and yellow, and 3 of white, for other jobs. I have a soldering iron here and bunch of resistors (hey, my dad is ex-electrician, and its his hobby now) With my average soldering skills I put a 60 ohm resistor on each led, attached them to a old harddrive power connector and drilled 4.8cm (3/16 in.) holes in the fan. I took electrical tape and taped the leds in place (they were sticking out a bit, but didn’t touch the blades, because the holes were smaller than the leds). I then attached connector to power supply and fired it up. Looks very very nice.

And uh, sorry for blurey pics

 

[1-Man-Army]

did u paint ur fan so it would glow? cause i saw sum guy paint his fan blade white so it would glow

 

[Vulpes]

No, enermax fans have clear plastic fins, so i didnt need to do that

 

[FarEast]

Nice Job! very effective!!

Next job is for you to mod those LED's above your fan to match the colours you have in the fan!!!

 

[Vulpes]

I was thinking, since i have 2 blues 1 red and 1 yellow, i can leave blues as is, and hook up red to harddrive and yellow (the turbo) to the nic activity led, since its already modded.

 

[AMDnitromike]

nice idea!

 

[Vulpes]

I have 2 of those fans, so ill mod the other one, once a bigger case comes along ill just stick 2 of em up front

 

[1-Man-Army]

i saw at mod fathers this led fan guide were the guy painted the fan blades and drill holes in and put the blue led in.

 

[FarEast]

How would that work? The wire's would prevent the blade from spinning!

 

[1-Man-Army]

no u dont get it ill show u

 

[1-Man-Army]

here look at this then u will understandhttp://www.themodfathers.com/article.php?13.0&PHPSESSID=89974340eb84b5f81368b26189f78112

 

[Vulpes]

That is pretty much what i did, except for painting it.