Need advice with remote fan/baybus

[NuclearHeadache]

I'm building a baybus with a remote fanbus. There will be no LedS attached to the baybus. Anyone have a good guide to building this. Any additional advice would be great

[m4a2t0t]

how many pins are on the backside of the switches?

u dont want to use a capacitor with ur LED,i run mine at 12v with a 1k ohm resistor,u dont want to run the led straight off the 5v line.i'd wire the led to 12v and put in a 350ohm resistor,the resistor will drop 7v and the circuit will draw 20mA

[NuclearHeadache]

There's 2 pins on the switches. They're single pole switches. And the LED says 5v - 6v MAX. Is running it a 7v safe?

[Vesuvius]

You'll be at 5v, I think you misread his post he said "you will drop 7v" rather than BE at 7v Good luck.

[m4a2t0t]

Originally posted by Vesuvius
You'll be at 5v, I think you misread his post he said "you will drop 7v" rather than BE at 7v Good luck.

the resistor will drop 7v and the led will have 5v all to itself

u planning on running 1 fan for each switch?
whats the speaker wire thingy for?

[CiscoKid]

Where did you get your toggles? I'm thnking of using a toggle switch when I build my case...

[NuclearHeadache]

Originally posted by m0a2t4t



the resistor will drop 7v and the led will have 5v all to itself

u planning on running 1 fan for each switch?
whats the speaker wire thingy for?

Thanks for the LED advice.
Yes I plan on running one fan per switch. Actually one of the switches may control 3 small fans instead of 1 but I still have to decide.
Oh and the speaker wire base is for the fanbus. Look here

The fanbus at that website is just a fanbus connected to the power supply but I want mine to work with toggles as well.

And to CiscoCert, I got the toggles at Home Depot for like 6 bucks Canadian.
I guess nobody's ever seen a website for this type of mod.
Oh well... Thanks anyway guys

[m4a2t0t]

how many fans do u have that u want controlled?

so heres how i see it
the speaker thingy connect to the 12v line on the psu,one wire goes to the switch(12V),make a wire out of the switch to the fan and then ground the fan through the speaker thingy

[m4a2t0t]

this may help

[NuclearHeadache]

Originally posted by m0a2t4t
this may help

Hehe Cliff's in in my favorites already but thanks.
He sells what I want but doesn't show how to make it. Check it out here

But I think I've figured it out. Thanks alot guys.

BTW looks like he's using speaker wire in that pic, Do u think it is? And does it matter what guage I use of wire. I have some old speaker wire, not from my stereo but from a little computer speaker, you know the one's in the case. Do you think that's suitable to use?

[m4a2t0t]

it looks like speaker wire to me.

i'd say wire in the 16-18 guage range should be fine,the speaker wire for the computer wire might be a little small,go to home depot and buy some,u can buy it buy the foot and u can get different colors,it's probably like 10 cents a foot.

if i find any fanbus links ill post em

[NuclearHeadache]

thanks

[terrancelam]

just wondering, what kind of black keyboard do you have and where did you get it?(How much was it?)

[NuclearHeadache]

It's an IBM Rapid Access keyboard with a built in volume and cd rom control. It has mute and a whole bunch of internet buttons I never use. I use the volume control a lot though.
I got it with my old Nte Vista. Maybe you can but it through an IBM dealer. Try the BRICK haha