Mike, On the first page of this thread someone suggested not testing 60mm fans because no one around here uses them anyway. Please disregard that request as 60mm fans are often times the only option for popular flex/micro atx cases that are used for point of sale computers all over the place. Rack m...

You don't really need to keep the serial cable connected to the fancontroller after it has been setup. So after you've decided on the appropriate settings after some testing it can be disconnected. a3ot and to Gooseman thanks for the crimping info is a molex crimper the only way to go or will any ge...

fancontrol, I have all the right connectors and wire to make longer cables to plug into the fan controller, but I'm having some difficulty crimping the ends. I bought a cheep radio shack crimping tool, but where the tool crimpts the A and B parts of the wire end seems too thick as I can only crimp b...

fancontrol TCL should work fine for Linux as well as most other open/free OSs. I've been playing with your controller using Ruby with a module for the standard POSIX - termios. I've never done serial programming before so I've been using the windows c++ code you supplied as a generic ref. I've run a...

fancontrol, I don't know if you still read this thread but I finally hooked my controller up ... after months of just not having enough time. Its great. So far I've only hooked up my 120 mm fan and it seems to be working perfectly. I'm going to hold off hooking up my other two fans because I want to...

I was roaming around today and I found a software company that sells software that models the air-flow and heat dissipation for electronic components. The software looks really interesting (expensive) but the site has lots of interesting articles disscussing such exciting topics :wink: such as fan p...

Well I'm still interested in everyones suggestions, but I figured out a way to add a bit of life to the fan. I took the fan off of the heat sink and removed the label from the video card side of the fan. There I discovered a dust cap over the bearings/bushings? I added some ballbearing oil that I ha...

I own a Gforce 2 GTS video card and the standard cooler just started making a really irritating noise that seems to suggest it is going South. I've been considering going with a passive solution for some time, but now this problem seems to have made matters more urgent. My question is what does ever...

I was the other person who won the 400W Seasonic the first thing I did was take the PS apart and look and see what fan they put in there. It seems they have changed the fan from the one in MikeC's review to an NMB(Minebea) I wrote the model number down .. but I can't seem to find where right now. I ...

I've already signed up with fancontrol to buy one of these things when/if he produces them. From what he said in his email there are only two of us who have signed up and he needs at least six people. So I don't quite understand what all the talk is concerning the software to program these things is...

Hey everyone! I just thought I would point out a little fact that I haven't seen raised here yet. One of the connectors on a wake-on-lan cable is identical to the connector for the panaflo. Granted the other connector is useless, but with a little soldering or crimping you can have a really cheap pa...

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, it looks like all the tools are Linux only for now, but I'll see if I can get it to work with FreeBSD. Oh and btw here is a link to an updated hard drive monitoring tool that is based on smartsuite.
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Does anyone know of a utility for FreeBSD that can read the SMART data off a hard drive? The most important piece of information of course is the drive temperature. I have a pair of drive enclosures and 7200RPM drives that I fear may have the ability to overheat. I am also interested in changing the...

Here are a couple more things to think about regarding the hard drive. First off you may want to consider a laptop harddrive. They run at 4200RPM and are used to being stuffed into plastic enclosures. I've been toying with the idea of crafting a small distribution for a compact flash card for my lap...

I've used several different ways to clean the inside of my case including canned air, high pressure air from air compressor, and a damp cloth. The only solution that really seems to work well is the air compressor, but unfortunately I don't own one and I don't plan on buying one in the near future a...