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Thread ID: 44201 2004-04-11 10:42:00 To buy or not to buy... a fan controller. Growly (6) Press F1
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228619 2004-04-12 10:39:00 Maybe I have missed something here, but if you are going to leave all the fans running all the time, why do you need an fan controller? What is it going to control? Andrew B (867)
228620 2004-04-12 11:04:00 Well i'd like to monitor all the fans, or maybe get em to speed up and down. I never thought I'd slap a fan in to not use it. I also want to monitor lots of temperatures, which, i may add, these fan controllers do. So what i really need is an lcd screen - but i'll buy a Fan controller, they're cooler.

:D
Growly (6)
228621 2004-04-12 11:12:00 The Digidoc5 does not control fan speed, just OFF and ON. godfather (25)
228622 2004-04-12 21:15:00 The other thing you can do with simple on/off control systems is to add some lag (hysteresis if you like as godfather said), this can be electrical or mechanical. For simple temperature controllers, if you dont mind less precise control of a set temperature, is to increase the thermal mass of the temperature sensor, so that it takes longer to respond in either warming or cooling.
Put the sensor inside a small block of metal for example.
Terry Porritt (14)
228623 2004-04-12 21:55:00 hmm just get yourself a thermaltake case mmmm, just got me a 1000D, nice case with 7 fans and two temp monitors and 4 controllers :)

Run slow and quiet when not doing much and then crank them when playing games
Budda (2736)
228624 2004-04-13 23:17:00 this digidoc5 is appearing less and less appealing... Growly (6)
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