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Can you make fan LED-s brighter ?

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thats the question , i have a Cooler Master SickleFlow fan , when on full power the light is amazing for me , but the fan is sooooooo loud even for my taste , the fan is on a 3 pin connector , i changed the speed in bios on PWM , i can barerly hear the fan but the LED-s is also barerly noticable ..... can you make the LED-s brighter without increseing the fan voltage ? 

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i guess u could cut the wires and do shit agh im too tired right now

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Get better fans then SickleFlows.

Heh. I was just looking at SickleFlows.

 

You could probably do some crazy DIY thing where you hook up the LEDs alone to 12v?

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Cut the wire from the leds and solder them on a 12v molex or sata connector





 
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Get better fans then SickleFlows.

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Cut the wire from the leds and solder them on a 12v molex or sata connector

 

i guess u could cut the wires and do shit agh im too tired right now

 

 

Heh. I was just looking at SickleFlows.

 

You could probably do some crazy DIY thing where you hook up the LEDs alone to 12v?

im not a DIY guy and im kinda scared to do that .....

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im not a DIY guy and im kinda scared to do that .....

Not much that can go wrong





 
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you have probably done something wrong.

controlling the fan via pwm shouldnt affect voltage and therefore not lower the brightness.

i tihink its pwm , sec im gonna check it ..... 

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Cut the wire from the leds and solder them on a 12v molex or sata connector

 

 

Heh. I was just looking at SickleFlows.

 

You could probably do some crazy DIY thing where you hook up the LEDs alone to 12v?

 

NO NO NO. You cant hook an LED directly to a 12V source. I guarantee an instant fried LED. You need to solder a current limiting resistor to avoid that.

 

Its too much hassle though and SickleFlows are crap.

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im not a DIY guy and im kinda scared to do that .....

it really easy to cut a few wires so

my idea u cut the led wires so that it gos to its own 3 pin header

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NO NO NO. You cant hook an LED directly to a 12V source. I guarantee an instant fried LED. You need to solder a current limiting resistor to avoid that.

 

Its too much hassle though and SickleFlows are crap.

Yeah, actually.

 

You wouldn't end up with a fried LED. You'd end up with a flare and a melted LED.

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NO NO NO. You cant hook an LED directly to a 12V source. I guarantee an instant fried LED. You need to solder a current limiting resistor to avoid that.

 

Its too much hassle though and SickleFlows are crap.

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Yeah, actually.

 

You wouldn't end up with a fried LED. You'd end up with a flare and a melted LED.

Sometimes it just dies, sometimes the plastic dome splits. It will die no matter what.

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Yeah, actually.

 

You wouldn't end up with a fried LED. You'd end up with a flare and a melted LED.

i wouldnt do it , to much hassle  for a cheap fan 

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you have probably done something wrong.

controlling the fan via pwm shouldnt affect voltage and therefore not lower the brightness.

Lets see im no expert so i will tell you everything that is in the bios 

system smart fan control : enabled

smart fan mode : manual 

smart fan start pwm value : 60 ( i modified only this) 

smart fan start pwm temp(-) : 10

deltaT: 30

smart fan slope pwm value: 10  

 

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Just buy an led strip, simple and gives the best effect

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Lets see im no expert so i will tell you everything that is in the bios 

system smart fan control : enabled

smart fan mode : manual 

smart fan start pwm value : 60 ( i modified only this) 

smart fan start pwm temp(-) : 10

deltaT: 30

smart fan slope pwm value: 10  

 

what motherboard do you have?

are you sure the fan is pwm?

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what motherboard do you have?

are you sure the fan is pwm?

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Just buy an led strip, simple and gives the best effect

Yes but can you get one that plugs into molex, and doesn't have some ridiculous box attached to the cord?!

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you have probably done something wrong.

controlling the fan via pwm shouldnt affect voltage and therefore not lower the brightness.

 

Actually most PWM fan LED's are affected. Even though it is still running at 12V, the LED is typically wired with the fan so that the PWM function is essentially flickering the LED extremely fast. Since this is so quick that you can't actually see it flicker it gives the illusion that the LED is dimmer.

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NO NO NO. You cant hook an LED directly to a 12V source. I guarantee an instant fried LED. You need to solder a current limiting resistor to avoid that.

 

Its too much hassle though and SickleFlows are crap.

This would depend on specifically what kind of LEDs are used in the fans. If the LEDs in the fans are rated for 12V, there's no problem with connecting it directly to a 12V source.

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Yes but can you get one that plugs into molex, and doesn't have some ridiculous box attached to the cord?!

so just to take one of the wires of the molex , theled wire and pug it into an another molex ? 

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