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rgb over fan splitter?

Quackers
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I'm wondering if you connect something like the NZXT Aer RGB fans to a fan splitter and then connecting that to the motherboard will all the fans be synced to the same colour permanently or will the RGB lighting just not work at all?

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The new generation of RGB fans has own controller cable for LEDs. So you have 2 cables from each fan, 1 for PWM power and 1 for LED controller. Compared to previous generation where LEDs were just powered over same 3/4pin power cable. Which led (pun not intended) to LEDs dimming when fans power was lowered with speed control in mind.

 

Simple answer: You can use splitters for fan powering. Each fan will have own separate cable for LEDs so that you can select to control LEDs one-by-one or chainlink multiple fans. NZXTs situation max chaining for LED strips/fans is 5 per header on Hue+.

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