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Fan controller for Vantec Tornado 92mm

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Hi,
I bought a thermaltake XController, which was working fine with some regular fans. Today I bought a Vantec Tornado 92mm because I had a fan controller and I knew I could slow it down a bit, and it wouldn't have to be noisy all the time.

Anyway, I plugged it into the fan controller and 2 minutes later there was smoke coming out of the rheostat on the xcontroller board.

The Vantec fan is rated at 1A, 12.5W, and the XController is supposed to handle up to 1.5A, so I don't know why it couldn't handle the fan.

Anyway, I need a fan controller which can handle this vantec fan, does anyone know of one.

I was thinking of getting the Sunbeamtech rheobus, found here
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Sunbeamtechs-...QQcmdZViewItem.
It is supposed to support 20W per channel. Does anyone think this will do the job?

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Ste
The Vantec Nexus will work. I had it controlling 2 Tornados without any bother and it's pretty cheap as well.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
These things cost about $50 AU.

I really didn't want to spend that much.

What about the sunbeamtech one i pointed out?

Another feature I forgot to mention is some fan controllers can only slow the fans to 6V. I want something which can go from 0-12V.
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Originally Posted by mrpringle

Thanks for the quick reply.
These things cost about $50 AU.

I really didn't want to spend that much.

What about the sunbeamtech one i pointed out?

Another feature I forgot to mention is some fan controllers can only slow the fans to 6V. I want something which can go from 0-12V.

On paper it should work, never tried it though.
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I might just buy the sunbeamtech one. After some searches on the internet I found that a few people claim it works well for the vantec tornado fan, so I'll just hope for the best.
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