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Sentry 3, adding more fans

Luke S.
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hey guys, need to know the best way of addding more fans to controller, have 7 rad fans and 4 case fans but only 5 channels, splitters or controllable hubs? i could just use AIsuite 3 if i cant connect all fans but would like to

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id say spliters and then you could have 5 "groups" of fans instead of 5 fans, but what do i know im a bit of a noob when it comes to this

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You can do it via splitters, just make sure that the fan hub provides sufficient amperage to manage all of the fans :D

 

Basically, if the hub has 1A, and each fan uses 0,2A, you will only be able to hook up 5 (0,2 x 5 = 1A) before the stop working. If you don't have and amperometer, you will have to test directly how many fans it can handle (it also depends on the fan though). 

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i would need 2 more lolz for 70 bucks 

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the sentry 3 can only handle 15W per channel so I would not put any more than 2 fans on each

so use fan spliutters for 10 of your fans and aisuite 3 for the rest

 

tbh aisuite and fanxpert are much better fan controllers

no need to change fan speeds ever because you can set up custom curves controled by the temp of certain system components

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the sentry 3 can only handle 15W per channel so I would not put any more than 2 fans on each

so use fan spliutters for 10 of your fans and aisuite 3 for the rest

 

tbh aisuite and fanxpert are much better fan controllers

no need to change fan speeds ever because you can set up custom curves controled by the temp of certain system components

ok thanks 

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