Gadgetory

slick and I want to do subjective readings of some fans at seven volts versus at 12 volts in terms of and we discovered that we don't have a single 12 to 7 volt resistor in the entire tech tips to do so because the rest of the office is closed off right now I'm forced to make myself a ghetto one I mean this is one of those never ever do this but I'm going to show you how to do it anyway just in case you ever have to kind of things so basically you've got a standard 4 pin 2 3 pin adapter Ollis even going to be able to plug into all the fans I guess we'll have to all you got to do is just cut away the casing anyway standard 4 pin molex hugs the peripheral connector to 3 pin so the way that voltage is derived is from a difference so yellow carries 12 volt black carries ground so that will deliver 12 volts to the fan however if I take okay so a way to deliver 5 volts to the fan would be to hook the fan up to this and this or this and this so this is this carries 5 volts this carries 12 these carry ground however if I want to deliver 7 volts to the fan I can hook at the 12 volt up to the 5 volt and that will be a difference of 7 volts so I'm going to show you guys how to do this never ever do this of course and most importantly once you plug this in never plug like a hard drive or anything into this because it'll be miss wired now because I've changed these around so all you got to do if you guys have have ever deep in a molex before then you'll know how to do this but you just kind of grab it it's better to have better tools but I don't happen to have my tools with me because we're trying to do something here and we don't have a whole lot of time so there we go well apparently the battery is running out on the camera too so I'll just work on this while slick goes and changes the battery and then we'll be good to go so all you do is bend the pins in with a needle a little bit so you Bend those two tabs on either side of the pin so I'm just going to do this one really quick here I just need to see where they are yeah with the camera there it's pretty hard to see what I'm doing but it's ok it's all good there we go ok so you pull that out once you pull it out you then bend the tabs back out so that they'll hook back in once you once you put them back in see how they're flared now and then the one that I bent in is not flared anymore so you just go ahead and and stick that in there and sort of try to my needles really dull now because I've used it for this one awful lot there you go flare that out flare that out so yeah I get once again like if you ever make yourself an adapter like this I have one at home that I made like what I did was I wrapped it up like this and then I like rode on here 7v fan adapter like do not plug and then if you're really smart you might like cover this with something so you never accidentally plug something in so basically I'm going to take this and throw them there take this and throw it in there and now I have made myself see how I have this now going to what is essentially 12 volt and 5 volt I've made myself a Sevenfold fan adapter which you should never do