Aero Cool Power Watch

[DanBaer]

Anyone out there using this combo fan controller and card reader? It looks great, I am having an issue however getting it to control my fan speeds. It comes with 3 wire fan connectors. When using 3 to 4 wire adaptors the yellow wire is no longer used so when I connect I get alarms. When I hard wire the yellow wire to the fans yellow (mobo sensor) wire the alarms stop. The manual fan speed control does not work however.
One thing, I have not installed the MOBO as yet, I am doing the peripheral wiring first, things like getting the fans, fan controller Etc all wired and then all those wires hidden.

Any suggestion or observations from any of you who may be using this controller?

 

[Zepper]

Please tell me you didn't hard wire a yellow wire from the PSU (+12V) to a fan sensor wire... :roll:

I'll withold the "D"-word until I hear back.

You need three wire fans to use with fan controllers that can read the fan speed as well - if your fans don't come with the right connector and they are within your controller's amp ratings per channel, then you have to put the right one on yourself or have them put on for you. You will NOT be using the mobo's fan connectors for anything when you have a stand-alone fan controller with internal speed sensing - except to disable the CPU warning/shutdown in the BIOS which has to be done once initially and again every time the CMOS is cleared. You will need a fan with working speed sensor to connect to the CPU-FAN connector on the mobo to get that done as many mobos won't start without a working fan w/speed sensor connected until you disable the CPU protection in the BIOS.

.bh.

 

[DanBaer]

No, I did not hard wire from the PSU to the fan sensor. If I had you could have used the D word and taken away my EE

I also do not plan on using the Aerocool to control the CPU cooler (CNPS9500) only the case fans. I will use it to monitor temperatures however.

The problem is that some of the fans that came with this Tt Armor case have a yellow sensoe wire as a seperate wire and Mobo plug as well as the two power leads connected to the 4 pin molex. The fan connectors from the Aero Cool have a three pin which includes the two power leads as well as a yellow sensor wire. As I can not find a proper adaptor I have hard wired the three wires (two power and the sensor) to the Aero cool. This works, the fans spin at normal speeds and there are no alarms however the controller does not vary the fans speeds.

I chose this unit not only for the fan control but also for the integrated card reader.

 

[Zepper]

I just got an Aerocool case with an integrated Gatewatch monitor/controller (CoolView) but I'm not sure it works the way your controller works. The gatewatch uses software to set its functions via a USB connection. I generally use my fan controllers to handle all the fans including the one in the PSU. I just haven't gotten around to setting up the gatewatch yet. But its alarm that goes off for 30 seconds every time I power up the PC is starting to get on my nerves, so it won't be long...

If I read the gatewatch directions properly, it controls the fan speed by a set temperature rather than directly and right now all my temp sensors are in free air and the CPU fan and PSU fan are the only ones connected and they are directly connected to the mobo headers for now. Once the holidays get over, I'll have time to set it up properly and I've got a Yate Loon here to use as my intake/HDD cooler fan. I'll have to scan the directions again to see if I'm reading them properly. And I'm not even sure how it calibrates the fans.

Good luck in figuring it out. If you think what you find out is applicable to the Gatewatch, please let me know.

.bh.