Using an Automotive Rheostat for Fan Control - Page 2
28-July-01 - Article by: John (EdwardNott)

Here is what I decided to do to set up my controller in my case pic

As you can see i have added a voltage meter, (which is optional, they can be expensive) it displays the voltage after the dimmer control representing the fan voltage it dose get some ooohhh's and aarrrr's from my friends and family. But I think i will update it to a lcd display instead, hmmm $$$$$ it will look much nicer.

here is a pic showing how to wire it up to your power supply and run fans and voltage guage


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Here are some updated pic's of my case modding and water-cooling

This pic (show's the front panel off my case, and you can see the hole and 120mm 105cfm sunon fan, the hole I made with a jigsaw the best tool for doing holes, I reckon. You can see the lights (Christmas tree) that light up my ut logo, these are 12V but connected in series so they add up to 240V.

This pic show the resisters for the voltage tweaks for the mo/bo and as you can see I have up graded my hose system for the water-cooling to have elbow joints the whole water-cooling sys is 13mm id. This made a much nicer look to the water system and took a lot of flexing force off the water block and the cpu. These are vineyard elbow joints found at irrigation shops for about $0.80c 13mm id 17mm od.

This pic you can see my water block in action it is a 20mm x50mmx50mm alloy block with 13 mm channels and ½" id ¾ od barbed fittings for in and out of water, then too finish it off I have a 3mmx60mmx120mm piece of alloy epoxyed to the top for the clamping system of the block

You can see this (large!) pic for a before change and elbow joints look


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this one pic for a before changes look at the front


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These pictures show the finished result of my case.. for NOW

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