by Bigal » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:23 pm
I installed my Nexus fan controller and promptly smelled smoke. Soon the fans that still worked (channels 1-3) were running at full speed, and the last one stopped running. "What happened?", I said to myself. After some investigation, I noticed that the Vantec-supplied fan extension wires (2 of them) were wired incorrectly! They switched the ground (black) wire with the hot (yellow) wire on both ends. The red wire was in the middle, as it should be. Crap. I pulled the unit out, made my own extensions to replace the incorrectly wired ones, and put in a Sunbeam rheostat bus (simiar to the PC Mods Rheostat bus). This worked fine, and I have since swapped the wires in the connectors of those two fan extensions.
Quality control issue at Vantec? You bet. Now I have a dead fan controller and I'm out $24. At least it didn't damage my system, which was my biggest concern.
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I installed my Nexus fan controller and promptly smelled smoke. Soon the fans that still worked (channels 1-3) were running at full speed, and the last one stopped running. "What happened?", I said to myself. After some investigation, I noticed that the Vantec-supplied fan extension wires (2 of them) were wired incorrectly! They switched the ground (black) wire with the hot (yellow) wire on both ends. The red wire was in the middle, as it should be. Crap. I pulled the unit out, made my own extensions to replace the incorrectly wired ones, and put in a Sunbeam rheostat bus (simiar to the PC Mods Rheostat bus). This worked fine, and I have since swapped the wires in the connectors of those two fan extensions.
Quality control issue at Vantec? You bet. Now I have a dead fan controller and I'm out $24. At least it didn't damage my system, which was my biggest concern. :d