Control: management of fans, temp/rpm monitoring via soft/hardware
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sipitai
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by sipitai » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:01 am
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a fan controller for my new "silent" PC that meets, or at least comes close to meeting, the following requirements:
- Can control at least 2 fans.
- Has at least 2 (ideally 4) temperature sensors.
- Controls the speed of the fans automatically.
- Can adjust a combination of the fans based on a combination of the temperatures, as opposed to adjusting fan 1 based on temp 1, fan 2 based on temp 2, etc.
- Undervolts the fans as opposed to using PWM.
- Starts the fans at 12V and then adjusts their speed as required.
- Does not require software to run permanently in the background.
So, does such a fan controller exist?
Any suggestions anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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sipitai on Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:40 am, edited 5 times in total.
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peterson
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by peterson » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:21 am
Have you checked mCubed's T-Balancer?
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sipitai
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by sipitai » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:52 am
peterson wrote:Have you checked mCubed's T-Balancer?
Unfortunately the mCubed T-Balancer XL/SL4 uses PWM.
They have a new product called the T-Balancer miniNG that allows you to choose between analogue or PWM voltage, but unfortunately sensor 1 can only affect fan 1 and sensor 2 can only affect fan 2.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks!
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bobalooza
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by bobalooza » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:26 am
Maybe consider using their attenuator to get close to what you are looking for. I must admit that although I purchased an attenuator (that I now don’t use) I couldn’t tell you how effective it really is as I didn't do a lot of testing with it. I do absolutely love my T-Bal and have been happy with it's performance (without attenuators). Of course everyone's needs are a little different.