yo - ive got a fan, and i need to mod it by mod it , i need to make the cable longer its a 2 pin fan, where do i start?
get another broken fan or one ur not using rip the wires off it. cut the wire at one end on the fan u want to make longer join the wire u took off the broken/unsed fan then insulte it with some heatshrink or eletrical tape will be fine. make sure the two wires do not touch each other good luck
Cut the cable in half, get 2 wires and some electrical tape or heatshrink, then just extend the wires :edit Robbie beat me to it
well ill try it, just threw away my last broken 2 pin fan- need to go salvage it now then ill give it a go, also i need to my new fan out of the case glue it into my geforce 3 lamest and smallest mod ever
oh bugger, its got tits up i soldered the longer cable to it, and ripped it out of the fan case i then uberglued it down to where i need it, so ive just got the fan spinning, fan dont spin up tho i reckon i accidently soldered the + and sense or - and sense connection together blowing, it was too damn fiddly on a 40mm fan, need something bigger really
i didnt know that you could solder the +ve and -ve round the wrong way, i managed to kill a 40mm fan by soldering it too near the motor. the amount of heat produced by the soldering iron probably killed it!!
well it could have been that - or yeah the heat from the solder 40mm was small, so was close to the iron oh well, time for me to pub a ORB cooler now for it
arnt the wires colour coded? and i did this sort of thing when i made a normal molex extention cable into a molex splitter =P and just used duct tape to fasten wires together and it turned out alright