Trigering max speed manually

[saulyx]

Hey guys, so I got couple of fans laying around(Gigabite E121225SL) 12v,

Nothing amazing, I'm powering them with 10v phone charger, however I see 3 sables, black red and yellow, black and red are clear, however im guessing the yellow is to adjust the speed(motherboard does that), question is, how do I replicate motherboard interaction with the fan? to make it run at 100%


Please help,
Thanks

 

[newtekie1]

With 3-pin fans the third wire is used for speed sensing only. It is not used to control the fan speed. The motherboard would vary the voltage supplied to the fan on the 12v+ wire to adjust the fan speed in this case.

 

[saulyx]

Wow, fast reply! Thanks, so the slow looking speed is because im missing 2 volts?

What would happen if I linked 3 fans paralel? so + to - to + to - to + to - and then hooked that up to 26v? would it work?

Thanks

 

[newtekie1]

I believe that would end up frying the first or second fan in the circuit.

 

[saulyx]

how come it works with LEDs?