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Old 04-10-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default Converted 2-pin Fan to 4 Pin Molex

Hey I wanted to ask some questions about converting a 2 pin 80mm brush less fan into a 4 pin molex connector. Now the 2 pin fan has the + wire and ground, so I took those two wires and connected them using a wire connector, do not know name. Put one end of wire in and clamp and then other end and clamp it down, now I had to use 4 of those in total so 2 on each wire, since the molex connectors needed to be male ends to connect to my female psu molex's. So I connected the red (+) wire to the yellow 12 V psu molex to mole and then the black ground to the 1st black ground right next to the yellow molex. Now is it safe running 2 wire connectors in one line? I had heat tubed the connectors and wires, but I do not know if this will hold up or cause a short due to the wire being cut two times and then being connected to a male mole connector. Now the way I connected the male molex clip was by using a wire that already had one on it rather than a new one, so I connected the fan to a wire, then to a another wire which had the male molex connector. Now I did the wire in the middle for length reasons, I kind of need it.
Also is it safe it use the remaining other 2 wires of the molex the other black and the red to do this with another fan?
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I read this three times and am still not sure what you have done.

You are using "crimp" connectors I believe by your description. Can you run two in series, meaning, wire A crimpted to wire B and wire B crimpted to wire C? Yes. Just make good solid crimps on the wires.

Heat shrink the crimped connectors to insure that no bare wire is exposed.

If the other two molex wires are 12V and Ground, then you can drive another fan, yes.

You could have run both fans off the same pair of wires (in parallel) also.

Does this make sense to you?
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Yes thank you I reread my post and it was bad describing on my part.
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