RGB fan hub

[buschman31]

I had gotten three essythreed rgb fan and hub controller with no wireless remote with some other equipment. Can a different remote or hub controller/remote from another brand be used as long as the fan header plug (5 pin) is the same as the fan hub?

 

[Zepher]

It's possible if these are re-branded and you get one from the same "manufacturer".

 

[buschman31]

From what i found online is that fan hub and remote was discontinued like 4-5 yrs ago.

If anyone who had the easythreed fan hub and controller please chime in on this

 

[cyberblogger]

I had gotten three essythreed rgb fan and hub controller with no wireless remote with some other equipment. Can a different remote or hub controller/remote from another brand be used as long as the fan header plug (5 pin) is the same as the fan hub?

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5 pin went out of style quickly because converting pwm to a 2 pin fan cost more than selling a pwm version. Since they adopted SPI L-ED as the convention, then its a question of injecting the SPI data in.

Which you could do by injecting the 3 pin spi signal into the PC input with a small remote controller like this: https://a.co/d/fadJTUV .

But as far as the 2 pin fan part, you just ground the -DC lead of the fan to turn them on full speed as the strip lights share the 12V.
The power leads on the fan cable are marked. The group of three wires is the LED, the stripe is 5V. you can find the ground by taking an ohm meter and go from the hub's gnd lead on the power to one of the pins, but its probably the 3rd pin in the group. the last two wires are the fan and the one with the stripe is 12V which would be tied to the hub's 12v power and can be checked with an ohm meter.

 

[buschman31]

5 pin went out of style quickly because converting pwm to a 2 pin fan cost more than selling a pwm version. Since they adopted SPI L-ED as the convention, then its a question of injecting the SPI data in.

Which you could do by injecting the 3 pin spi signal into the PC input with a small remote controller like this: https://a.co/d/fadJTUV .

But as far as the 2 pin fan part, you just ground the -DC lead of the fan to turn them on full speed as the strip lights share the 12V.
The power leads on the fan cable are marked. The group of three wires is the LED, the stripe is 5V. you can find the ground by taking an ohm meter and go from the hub's gnd lead on the power to one of the pins, but its probably the 3rd pin in the group. the last two wires are the fan and the one with the stripe is 12V which would be tied to the hub's 12v power and can be checked with an ohm meter.

One question. I'm not so match into the RGB lighting but will I be able to control the fan speed? I do have some three/four pin fans.

 

[cyberblogger]

One question. I'm not so match into the RGB lighting but will I be able to control the fan speed? I do have some three/four pin fans.

It would be hard to tell since this is something the industry ditched this because controlling two wire 12V fans cost more than controlling PWM fans.

I would get a new one since this circuit isn't that great and most likely will self destruct because controlling multiple 2 pin 12V fans by PWM would require the fan driver transistors and they would need to be heat sink. Since they didn't build these things properly, most self destructed and they switched to this PWM fan method. I'm surprised to see one not burnt up.

 

[Happy Hopping]

for those of you using these fan hub, the 4 pin is connected to your motherboard , and of course, they are SATA power. Knowing that, doesn't up to 10 chnl. going to your motherboard put a lot of load on your motherboard?