on/off switch

OnlineAddict · TweakNOOB Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 13

Is there any guides out there on making an off and off switch like for fans and lights inside your computer? or can i buy them from a local store or something?

(dont give me any online stores)

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smith.p.sean · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.metku.net/index.html?sect=view&n=1&path=mods/baybus/index_eng

ask and you shall receive, visit ur local hardware store and u can simply buy some rocker switches and just solder them into the light lines and then put them in there with the fans. Or they sell fan controllers. Hardcano units are the best, once again, not shure where u can get them perhaps a local computer shop cause i get all my stuff off the net.

OnlineAddict · TweakNOOB Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 13

Thanks bro, I can just make my own thing with the drilling and the measureing and the

, just get all me supplies from radio shack like always

smith.p.sean · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject:

more power to ya then, good luck and post some pics when ur done!

OnlineAddict · TweakNOOB Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 13

Wow....Now that I read every step its trying to tell me...I have no clue whats going on

lol Im just gonna sit here for a few hours figiring things out. I will ask questions when I need them

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: on/off switch

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

It's actually not all that hard, and if it was defective, it just wouldn't work.

I built one similar to that awhile back, before fan controllers were a dime a dozen at CompUSA. I used pots instead of switches, though, but the concept is the same. You're just adding resistance to the power line, so it drops the voltage on the other side of the switch. Lower voltage = slower fans, obviously.

Give it a try, the worst that will happen is the fans won't work.
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hostghost · TweakNOOB Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 38

Take an "turning knob" and its gear of an old amplifier. That woyld look great insertied into your sidepanel!