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(More customer reviews)I am using this product a little differently than it was designed for.Instead of cooling a PC, I actually wanted something to help control the heat in my entertainment cabinet.It houses a fire-breathing stereo receiver and an XBOX, among other things, and I wanted it to be a little cooler inside.
I purchased a number of 120mm fans which I mounted to the back of the cabinet, and I wanted something I could use to control them.My goal was a system that I could always leave turned on, but would spin up the fans when things got too hot.I mounted this controller along with a power supply underneath one shelf, and it looks pretty good.The end result is that I have a solution, although not as automatic as I had hoped, for cooling my entertainment rack.Total cost:5 fans- $30.Power supply: scrounged.A switch, an outlet, some screws, etc: scrounged.. Connectors: $10 This controller:$30.Done for about $70.
I am sort of happy with the result.
The good points:
It looks pretty slick.
Controls 5 fans.
Temperature readout
Simple to operate
The not-so-good points
You can not actually program the temperatures you want.Rather (I think) it works by comparing the temps on all 5 probes.As a result, it
never really powers down the fans in my application- meaning I ended up with an on/off switch for the whole fan system, which is what I was trying to avoid.
The fan speeds also seem a bit random.One channel, which the thermocouple always shows as being the coolest, consistently runs the fan the fastest.Curiously, that fan is from a different manufacturer than all the others.Not sure what is going on, and given what I use it for, don't really care.Still, it might bother someone else.
I have the display mounted underneath the lowest shelf, and it is just about impossible to read when looking down at it
Within a few days, one of the speed bar displays stopped working, as did one of the fan outputs.I assume both would have been covered under warranty, but I have too much work wrapped up in the thing to uninstall it and return it.Overall
It does look cool, and that is probably its primary purpose in life.It controls the fans, and actually changes their RPM in response to temperature near individual components on my entertainment rack.I wish it had a few more features (like set points) and the ability to turn off all fans when temperatures were under a set minimum, but what do you want for the price?
Not sure what I would have rated it for in its actual intended use- hard to say how big a deal set points would have been in a PC case.
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