Fan Controller ATN-TP-02E User DIY

So let's install this bad boy shall we. The case I am using, as I have already mentioned, is a Chieftec Dragon style knock-off. More importantly my fan setup in said case is as follows, 2 80mm fans in the lower front doing the intake job, 2 80mm fans in the rear handling the exhaust, 1 90mm fan on a Zalman PCI bracket pushing air towards my cpu, and a cheapo PSU with two fans. One of the PSU's fans sucks air from underneath it and the other blows it out upper rear of my case. Everything is pretty standard fare, the two fans in the back are Vantec UV reactives, the 90mm fan is just a no-name fan I picked up at my local computer store that probably pushes around 45-50cfm, one of the front 80mm fans is a LED fan by PC Toys, and the other is a Vantec Stealth.

So taking into consideration my current setup and the obvious reason one gets a fan controller, namely to reduce fan noise, I decided that (a)the 90mm fan needs to be hooked up,(b)the LED fan rattles a bit and it's in front so that's next to get hooked up, and(c)the 80mm Stealth can do without for obvious reasons. So that leaves me with one fan connector and two rear fans (the Vantec UV's in case you haven't been following). Some quick thinking and a bit of rummaging through my parts bin and I came up with a 3-pin splitter wire. Using this I would connect both fans to the final connector so that they would then be controlled by the same knob.

So now all I have to do is quit planning and start doing. Luckily my case came with a removable drive cage so I can show you cool pics like this one...

Installation was a breeze as you can imagine. The only problem I ran into was a bit of a quality issue with the fan connector...

As you can see in the above pic the small piece of plastic on "F2" that locks the two connectors together snapped right off and I was being fairly gentle with it even...no really I was. I didn't have any trouble with the other two connectors though so maybe it was just a faulty one. Anyhow the fit was a snug one anyway so it didn't matter all that much in the end.

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