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what is up all my techno nerds you're watching J's two cents and today we're going to take a look at the touch six fan controller from phobia like most other packages the box is made out of cardboard and it flips open here it's got a picture of a device on the front kind of neat you've got your manual inside we're men we don't need this we'll just go ahead and set that aside you've got six long braided and sleeve temperature probes right here very nice very attractive and you've got six fan extension cables here and these are what you're gonna plug your fans into surprisingly and add just like the temperature probes these are sleeved very very nice a lot of fan controllers in this price range don't include sleeved fans so Bravo phobia for that and they're very long gives you a nice reach which is very important you've got your fan controller power cable over here but it's not as long as I think it should be this is kind of a problem but hey you know it's sleeved once again so it's nice and stealthy and of course you've got your anti-static bag and you've got some mounting screws over here and some double-sided tape for your temperature probes and opening this up right here pull this thing out you've got your fan controller it's made out of ABS type plastic but it does have kind of a brushed aluminum look to it it's very attractive I'd think this would go good in just about any case you can put it in and what taking a look here at the fan cables they're very long which is good especially to a big case like my 900 D and you also have a little sticker here that tells you which fan controller slot you're plugged into which is very important for our settings now taking a look at the front you can see they went with kind of a cheap digitizer so you can see the outlines of the different touch sensors on the screen it doesn't really show when it's lit up it doesn't really show unless light shining right on it but it might turn off some people now one thing that some people might find very annoying is it's got this beep when you touch it it goes beep beep beep is very loud and very obnoxious but if you pull out this little beep on/off jumper right here on the Exide no more beep problem solved when it comes to the PCB on the back it does seem very well constructed there's no ugly soldering points it does seem like it was very well put together unfortunately fans one through six on the ports seemed just kind of sporadically stuck on here in the last two five and six kind of seemed like an afterthought when you turn on the fan controller automatically the fan controller is in the off position so you're going to have to hit that power button every single time you want to make a change now we're watching this video I thought that maybe I wasn't very clear on this point so I'm going to go ahead and clarify what I mean by having to turn it on every time the fan controller is going to automatically by default start with whatever the settings were that you saved it with last so just because the fan controller starts in the off position doesn't mean you have to go through and reset all your settings you've got your six fans here represented by little fan icons and the little icon will spin if that particular fan is actually reading some sort of an RPM you've got your rpms here on the left the M stands for manual and you've got your fan speed there which is by default set to 70% now when you touch the little m over here or just to the left of it technically it switches it to automatic mode which is then going to use the temperature probe to set its fan speeds pushing on the little buttons on the bottom here you control the fan speed in five percent increments when you're in manual mode and obviously 100 percent is as fast as it can go because you know five percent is max so as you go down here you see you have to push the little little Halfmoon circle buttons on the left and 40% is minimum and you can see that the new percentage is represented there by lower rpm speeds and you can physically see the fan in the background slowing down and 700 rpm there you go now you might think that pushing the arrows right here the left arrow and the right arrow would be what controls the speed but as you can see that cycle through the different fans so you have to choose and touch those tiny little buttons on the very end there those Halfmoon circles right there next to the 70% and on the left so they can get difficult to touch if you don't really have a fingernail or you have really fat fingers like I do and it kind of gets annoying but if you set it to automatic here as you can see because there is no temperature probe setup by default it goes all the way up to one % but as you can see when we're in automatic mode touching the percentage up and down here makes absolutely no difference because it's going to be based off temperature and if you go back to manual mode then you have full control over the controller once again now I have a temperature probe set up here you can see if you touch the RPM you switch between voltage output and RPM reading so if you were to turn this down you can see that the voltage is output is going to change all the way down to 5 volts so you can choose whether or not you want to monitor voltage or you want to monitor the RPMs based on just touching that little readout now touching the temperature sensor up here on the top right you can switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit so depending on what part of the world you live in you may want Fahrenheit or Celsius and if you set that to automatic because 23 degrees Celsius is so low by default it goes down to 40% because now it sees a temperature it went to 100 earlier because I had no temperature probe plugged in and it thought the thing was overheating though my god we got to go fast so it ramped the fans up all the way mein gott this little lock icon that's blinking here if you just let that blink for 5 seconds the fan controller will automatically lock and there you go ok guys now let's go ahead and take a look at my personal rig here as you can see it is installed in my 900 D and I do have it hooked up to control a lot of fans in this case I've got 11 fans in here but the four main fans here on my quad radiator are being controlled by the motherboard and the CPU load but it is important to point out that the fan controller can handle up to 30 watts per channel and because it can handle 30 watts per channel I've got these three fans back here on the triple rad being controlled by just one channel on the fan controller now with all that said there is a couple of things I don't like about this fan controller I don't like the digitizer that they use because I don't like the fact that you can see the squares on the screen I don't like the fact that it turns off every single time that you restart it because I think it with a fan controller you kind of want the flashy graphics and that that you know the little fan spinning around and whatnot and too I think the power cable should have been longer last con is the beep the beep is super annoying they should have either used a quieter piezo beeper in there or just not had it beep whatsoever now when it comes to strengths on this fan controller it can handle three a channel that is HUGE you can plug lots of fans into one header using splitters if you need to especially if you don't have super high rpm fans that pull a lot of watts or amps and you can really customize how this fan controller controls the fans in your case you can also use three pin LED lighting on this fan controller and use it to dim the lighting if you want it doesn't control just fans but overall I think this is a great value this is a great fan controller it retails for about forty four dollars on aqua tunings website and fobia has really done a good job with bringing you a nice digital fan controller here at a low cost and it's gonna it's going to last you years that it feels robust it's very well put together and I don't see any problems with using this fan controller in my custom rig and now I can hear all you guys asking me Jay how do I get one of these how can I get this well the great folks over at aqua tuning have generously donated two of these to my one-year giveaway and this is the very first announcement regarding and giveaway that I'm doing for my channel because you guys have been so awesome and supporting me over the last year I'm going to be doing a few giveaways but the very first that I want to announce is that you can win one of these aqua tune is given two of these to the channel and in order to win you're going to have to be making sure that you're subscribed following me on Twitter and I'll be giving you more details in the future on how to enter so don't ask me now it's too soon but coming up soon I'm giving you the information now go to aqua tunings website check out this fan controller for yourself and as always check out all my other 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