I made PWM fan generator(did not want to connect to my computer motherboard) for testing. I have made a little research and found interesting thing. You want make opposite thing than I'm doing.
#3 & 4 pin fan pinout pro#
The result would permit the pulsed motherboard signal to vary the MacPro fan thanks for good info, finally I made mac pro fan I think you in the same and different case in the same time. The stable output voltage would then feed back to the fan to control its speed. You'd connect the oscillating 12V wave to an appropriately sized capacitor to smooth the output into a stable voltage. The general approach is to use the motherboard speed signal to drive a transistor, which acts as a valve to vary a 12V power source. This would require building a small circuit to convert the motherboard pin-4 speed signal (pulsed on/off) and generate a continuous 0 to 12V signal that would feed into the MacPro fan. Someday, if I want to overclock the system, I could implement the variable speed feature. There is plenty of cooling for a 2700K CPU, and I haven't really found the need to increase the fan speed. My ASUS rig has a few of these fans running using 5V for the fan speed setting. If all is well, your fan will be spinning at a good rate, and you can go into your BIOS display to see the actual fan speed. A good source is to tap straight from the Power Supply Unit (PSU) using one of the +5V pins from an unused disk drive molex connector. Everything is ready to go, you just need to apply a voltage (0 to 12V) to the speed control wire that you just release from the connector. One pin 4 is out, you can safely plug the socket into an Intel motherboard fan connector port. If it doesn't slide out easily, you aren't squeezing the retaining tab in the right spot. The Pin 4 wire will pull out of the socket. The simple trick is to use a small knife and squeeze the retaining pin on the Pin 4 plug connector.
#3 & 4 pin fan pinout full#
The Mac Case fan wants an actual voltage which would be on continuously at ~3v for the same quarter of full speed. So if the control is on for a 1/4 of a second, and is then off for 3/4, the fan would run at 1/4 of full speed. To vary the fan speed, the voltage is toggled on and off, with the duty cycle representing the fan speed. The problem is that on your motherboard, pin 4 uses the Intel fan control standard. Pin 4 - Speed control pin (1V = slow, 5V=moderate, 12V=jet engine fast) The pinout for the MacPro fan looks like the following: It's been a few years since I built my box using a 2009 MacPro case, but if memory serves, here's what you do: That being said, you can get it run with just a few simple tricks. The fan in the MacPro case isn't really compatible with an Intel based motherboard. My apologies for posting to an old thread, but since you haven't received a reply, I'll provide a description for the benefit of others who may read this. The Blue and Yellow colors basically interchange, but might be worth unifying chart to pic, or vice versa? Great page, as always, but picture on right has Black,Red and Blue wire, but chart lists Black,Red and Yellow. '3 pin IDC Male connector at the cable' should be on the right, and '3 pin motherboard fan connector' should be on the left. The pinouts are correct, but I believe the the descriptions for the pictures are swapped. This is mostly accurate, except for the sense wire: when the fan is running, the sense wire has 1.5v, but if the fan is not running then the sense wire is 0v. The pinout is correct, at least for gnd and VDC (so it must be correcto for sense too). Stock Intel fans have this 4-pin connector. It is physically compatible with 3-pin fans an has an extra pin after sense for speed control. There are 35 approved reports in our database Dateġ2V and Ground are correct, I don"t have a sensing fan. Motherboard 3 pin CPU or Case Cooling fan connector specification users reports and reviews Motherboard 3 pin CPU or Case Cooling fan connector reports and reviews