How to connect Fan Cables?

[Danimates]

I have a Master Liquid ML120R RGB and its been working fantastically for the past year. Unfortunately today I broke the controller which all the cables connected to. It started smoking and it stopped working (It's been hours and it still smells smokey). Is there a way I can connect these without the controller? (There are a bunch of connectors in the box for the fan wires. )

 

Thanks.

 

 

Image 1: The things i connected to the controllers where these 3 pin connectors from the fans and a sata connector.

 

Video: What the controller looks like (They don't sell them separately)

[Statik]

Those look like the RGB headers, you should be able to plug them into the RGB headers on your Mobo

 

[Danimates]

17 minutes ago, Statik said:

Those look like the RGB headers, you should be able to plug them into the RGB headers on your Mobo

 

This solved the issue for the chasee fans they work and have rgb now but the cooler fans wont light up or spin. (Neither does the cooler unit)

 

[Bombastinator]

First possibility is that the controller software turned off or set to zero the motherboard port for your cpu fan.  Bunch of ways they could do that.  If this is the case you might be able to just turn it back “on”

It may also be the pins are swapped about.  There is a standard for pwm, and believe it or not a standard for RGB too.  The makers like to obfusticate it by swapping pins and putting them in non standard places for literally no other reason than to screw the consumer.  It is often possible to find out which pin actually goes where according to the standard and reroute.  The pump will run off a regular pwm header unless they’ve made it a different voltage or something just to force customers to buy more stuff.  “Master liquid” huh?  Not going there.  Ever.

 

raising holy hell over the phone with the company and making them send you another controller box for free would be an option imho.

[Danimates]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

First possibility is that the controller software turned off or set to zero the motherboard port for your cpu fan.  Bunch of ways they could do that.  If this is the case you might be able to just turn it back “on”

It may also be the pins are swapped about.  There is a standard for pwm, and believe it or not a standard for RGB too.  The makers like to obfusticate it by swapping pins and putting them in non standard places for literally no other reason than to screw the consumer.  It is often possible to find out which pin actually goes where according to the standard and reroute.  The pump will run off a regular pwm header unless they’ve made it a different voltage or something just to force customers to buy more stuff.  “Master liquid” huh?  Not going there.  Ever.

 

raising holy hell over the phone with the company and making them send you another controller box for free would be an option imho.

How would I turn the port back "on"

[Bombastinator]

That would very possibly be a Windows10 thing which I know little about.  it could be done in a couple of ways.  For it to even have been “turned off” though would have required some sort of software from the company to be run on the host computer.  Was this even done?

 

I should mention I’m assuming you plugged your pump into the cpu fan/pump header and nothing happened, correct?

[Danimates]

Thanks to everybody. I thinkered around and I found out one of thee rgb wires broke when the controller broke. The rgb doesn't work anymore but at least the fans work. Thanks to everyone.