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how's it going guys Kyle here with awesomesauce news today I'll be taking a look at lamb Tron's FC 5v2 fan controller and as you can see from the front of the box does have four separate channels they are dial knobs and it does feature an LCD screen at the front and you can see that screen actually comes in seven different colors so this is a pretty fancy controller it's definitely not skimpy by any means and you can see down here there are 30 watts of delivery per channel so even if you have two fans that are you know maybe take 12 watts each you could actually hook two of those up to one of these channels and it would work perfectly fine so uh it's not much else on the box oh yeah it does come in two flavors you've got a silver kind of a silver metallic look right there and then you've got an anodized black her yeah I think that's right but the one I'm taking a look at today is the black one so when I pop this guy open and first thing is the user's manual I won't get too much into that I am the manual gasps you don't need that thing here's some temperature leads so you can actually hook up up to four temperature leads one per channel and you would place these yellow ends at various places in your case and you connect the other to the other end which is these are these two pin connectors to your fan controller and from there you can actually monitor the temperatures of various spaces within your chassis they've also included some fan extension cables so you can see they are nicely sleeved black sleeved cables very nice touch it's got some heat shrink on the ends there and there you can see you've got some three pin extension connectors right there it's very nice and you've got a molex power connector of course your molex it's going to be what's powering this entire controller and thus what is powering all the fans or other peripherals that are connected to it and finally Oh almost forgot these you've got some mounting screws by the way guys this fan controller does fit in one of your five and a quarter inch bays only takes up a single bay and if this then will focus and other screws pretty sure most do you know what screws look like and then here we've got a little jumper little tiny mini jumper and I'm going to show you what that is in just a second but here's the main events this is the fan controller itself forgive the train horn passing by but here it is got a lamp Tron FC five little logo up there and it's got a nice brushed aluminum design at the front it actually looks very sleek just this does not look cheap at all looks very high-end it'll look really nice in certain cases if I'm you know I'm gonna tell you right now this isn't gonna look great in any case out there now you're gonna want one that with a very sleek maybe a more modern minimalistic design this thing would pop right in there but you know it's all preference people Who am I to judge but I'll also forget to say there's the LCD LCD screen obviously let me take this little guy off oh that looks much better doesn't it very nice all right so the real stuff is happening back here first off you got your molex power connector your four pin that's 12 volt and then you can up top it's kind of confusing with the PCB up here there's so many little wires and stuff but you can see you've got four one two three and four three pin fan connectors right there one per channel and pretty pretty self-explanatory you plug in your fans right there and down here is where it gets interesting so you can see there there are four pins kind of hard to see because they have these mini jumpers on when we take the jumpers off oh I just took off all three at once skills there you go you've got six pins and just beneath them are labeled B G and R or more commonly known as the acronym RGB and yes those do stand for blue green and red so that's essentially how you control or change the color of your LCD output is with these little jumpers little plastic jumpers that I showed you I just took off so essentially if you wanted blue you would put a jumper on the two pins that are labeled blue or B if you want green you put it on the G you want are put it on the R but get this if you want purple you put one jumper on the B and then one jumper on the are just like that and just like wise you can do yellow with G and R is that right yeah I mean see this is this all goes back to those Barney days when it's when you mix blue and red you get purple and you know you're like I'm never gonna use that information but BAM here it is so pay attention to your Barney kids so they're basically you have it there are seven colors I'm going to show those to you in just a second so I'm not going to go through all the different combinations just yet but over here are more leads you can see it says select all right you got four pins now two jumpers one on each and you've got C and F just above those so the Seas for Celsius f is for Fahrenheit basically it's the temperature readout there'll be a temperature readout of your temp leads right and so you can either have them display in either Celsius or Fahrenheit so if you want Celsius you just have Celsius on there just like that and if you want a Fahrenheit you'd have the Fahrenheit jumper on but get this guys if you have both jumpers on like I just did or if you remove both of them then essentially you switch to voltage mode so instead of your LCD reading out the temperatures let's say you don't want any temperature leads in your computer or you just don't care about the temps in those areas it'll actually revert to voltage mode and from there you can actually see how much voltage you're putting out to each channel so as you turn the knob in theory you'll see the voltage meter go up that's very useful but essentially the next to that is the alarm come on okay there we go there's the alarm so if you have a lead on there it'll basically enable your alarm so if any of your temperature leads ever goes above 70 degrees Celsius you'll hear a little beeping noise it'll be like hey it's getting hot in here and then you should probably tend to your computer in case it's on fire or if you don't want the alarm at all you simply just leave the jumper off and it will disable that alarm eight pins up here see that they're all labeled J s one two three and four that's where your temperature leads go so those two pin connectors I showed you on one end they plug into each of those and that way you can monitor the temperatures of course so uh that's pretty much it here the mounting points in your five and quarter-inch Bay so why don't I get this guy all situated I'm gonna install it well I'm not gonna install I'm just gonna power it up maybe connect a fan or two to it and we can take a look at what this L TV screen looks like when it's turned on alright guys so I have the fan controller all hooked up now it's currently running off of a fractal Newton r3 600 watt modular power supply I basically just had to jump it in order to get things started but here you can see I've got a fan connected right here and right now I'm in voltage mode so the voltage is being displayed on the lower row while the RPM for the fans are on the top row so right now I don't know if you can tell but if I crank this up you'll see the voltage start to go up and of course our PM will go up as well if I do it I can't really tell it's actually connected to a net this first channel is connected to an LED fan so of course it'll also control the LED because they're both wired to the same connection but there you have it and then this channel is a little bit different though I actually took a three pin Y splitter so I actually have two fans connected to this there are two Corsair fans and if I crank it up you can definitely tell there's two fans because we're just super loud takes a little while but also you can see that the RPM readout is in increments of 10 but those seem to be fairly accurate oh man that feels really nice nice cool breeze and turn that down so I can hear myself think and no fan is connected to this one that's why there's zero rpm and zero voltage but on the fourth channel we have a voltage here 4.8 volts but there's no rpm and you're wondering why why Kyle why is that well that's because I don't actually have it hooked up to a fan I have that fourth channel is connected to this BitFenix alchemy LED strip and essentially I just wanted to demonstrate that you can also use this fan controller and many fan controllers for that matter to adjust your LED accents in your case so you can see here if I crank the dial up oh you can see the light and of course you can go full blast as bright as it can be ooh so I thought this is kind of cool kind of neat to show off I just wanted to demonstrate that there you guys have it let's show you guys some of the different colors of the seedy screen as I promised oh wait no I'm forgetting something I wanted to show you guys like the the temperature temperature mode so I'm gonna plug in some leads really quick and I'll be right back alright guys so I just plugged in two of the temperature leads and I had to remove one of those mini jumpers if you remember you had to remove one or the other in order to get from voltage mode to either Celsius or Fahrenheit mode and as you can see here we've got a readout in degrees Celsius the voltage has gone away and there you have your temperatures for the two leads leads are pretty much in the exact same spot right now they're underneath my desk seems pretty chilly down there but with that said why don't we take a look at some of the cool colors that this LCD can display alright guys that is gonna do it for this unboxing and overview once again this has been Lam Tron's FC 5v2 fan controller I'm Kyle with awesomesauce news and if you guys enjoyed this video be sure to like and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video