Help choosing a fan controller

[adamdidthis]

HI Guys,

 

I need some advice to help choose a fan controller.

 

I am going to be running 28 fans and 4 pumps and would like all of it to be controlled by a single fan controller, is that even possible?

 

Cheers

 

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[Prothetik]

28 fans and 4 pumps? uwot

[adamdidthis]

lol, yeah it does sound crazy I know.

 

2 480 rads in push pull in one loop, and 2 360 rads in push pull in the other. Will use dual D5 pumps in both loops for redundancy.

 

Hope that makes sense. 

[Anthony10]

wat....

[adamdidthis]

Should I move this to water cpoling instead?

[Musikman]

I don't know of any controllers that support that many fans/pumps but what you could do is use combiners(?) to take all the fans from 1 rad wire them to the same control port on the controller since they will all be running at the same speed anyway. Rinse and repeat for each of the rads and then do individual ports for the pumps. 

[adamdidthis]

I get what your saying, is there a brand that you guys recommend?

[DavidL.Roth]

I'm going to steal this thread a bit and ask where I can buy simple fan controllers like this Fractal Design one (image below)?
http://itshootout.com/ben/R3/fan-controller.jpg

 

I think it's some sort of variable resistor.

[Heisenbleurgh]

You could pick whichever of the NZXT lineup you like most:

http://www.amazon.com/SENTRY-Accessories-5-25-Inch-Screen-Controller/dp/B002L16OMO/

 

and then get a couple of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Sleeved-Splitter-CPF01/dp/B00B46XKKQ/

 

I'll be honest though, not sure how many you can connect via splitters and still get proper power for each. Even connecting 12 fans per controller could be pushing it.

[d33g33]

With that many fans spend the money on an Aquaro with some Mod My Toys PCB Splitters will have you right. 1 splitter PCB per bank of fans using 1 channel on the Aquaro. You can probably do the same with the pumps.

[Bob]

You can make your own breakout cable, just wire them in parallel.

[Alexdaman]

http://www.scythe-eu.com/en/products/pc-accessory/kaze-master-pro-525.html this one can support up to 6 fans at 1amp each , if your fans are 0.25amps each you can wire 4 fans on each lane (its pushing it) 

[adamdidthis]

If I have got this correct, I can power them from anywhere as they are all pwm fans and only the control cable need to be connected to the fan controller (most likely an aquaero 6). I did see a video of them using one to power 20 fans on one channel so think this should meet my needs.

[HexaGuy]

If you can spend some money, you can buy a Aquaero 6 from Aquacomputer. Amazing quality. Very high price though. 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Wasn't looking at the post before mine.