In my case I have 6 fans. Two on my CPU, one exhaust, and three intake. Technically, the only one I need to control is a San Ace on the CPU. Presently it is running at 5v and I want to bump it up more, but 12v is too loud. Also, it draws .38 amps.
I figured I can either buy a rheostat for the fan itself or buy a fan controller. I like the option of the control panel because it looks nice and will not require drilling a hole in my case to hold the rheostat or what not. However, if I am going to buy a fan controller then I would like to just hook up all my fans to it which would either require controller with 6 ports or a controller with 3-4 ports that could handle a high draw on each channel.
I have been looking at the Lamptron controllers because they go all the way up to 30W, which is clearly beyond what I need, but for $30 for 30W you really can't go wrong.
Here is the problem I am running into though... I have a 3yr old kid and probably another on the way and it would be a shame if they came in my office and fiddled with the "pretty" knobs and essentially turned off my CPU fans... so aside from always remembering to lock my door, is there a fan controller that can handle at least 10w per channel that has some kind of kid-proof interface? I like the ZALMAN MFC3 because it has a childproof interface which requires holding down the button for 3 seconds in order to change the fan speed. Only reason I am not buying it is because of the 0.7A per channel rating and the fact that users of the MFC2 model complained of the display crapping out after a few months.
So what do you guys think? Any ideas on a childproof fan controller with 10W per channel?
I figured I can either buy a rheostat for the fan itself or buy a fan controller. I like the option of the control panel because it looks nice and will not require drilling a hole in my case to hold the rheostat or what not. However, if I am going to buy a fan controller then I would like to just hook up all my fans to it which would either require controller with 6 ports or a controller with 3-4 ports that could handle a high draw on each channel.
I have been looking at the Lamptron controllers because they go all the way up to 30W, which is clearly beyond what I need, but for $30 for 30W you really can't go wrong.
Here is the problem I am running into though... I have a 3yr old kid and probably another on the way and it would be a shame if they came in my office and fiddled with the "pretty" knobs and essentially turned off my CPU fans... so aside from always remembering to lock my door, is there a fan controller that can handle at least 10w per channel that has some kind of kid-proof interface? I like the ZALMAN MFC3 because it has a childproof interface which requires holding down the button for 3 seconds in order to change the fan speed. Only reason I am not buying it is because of the 0.7A per channel rating and the fact that users of the MFC2 model complained of the display crapping out after a few months.
So what do you guys think? Any ideas on a childproof fan controller with 10W per channel?