Pc fan wire color

weedss

weedss

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The wire is blue, orange, green ? lol.. isn't wire suppose to have black, red, yellow ?

tryin to wire 3 fans to 12v DC adapter. Here' the pic.

this fan has 60 CFM speed, 120mm.
 
lofty

lofty

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when i used to use pc fans i cut the conector of it and i used a old mobile phone charger and then i just kept touching the wires together until it started to spin lol and when it did i just taped them up, not a scientific way of doing things but it worked for me
 
weedss

weedss

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lofty said:
when i used to use pc fans i cut the conector of it and i used a old mobile phone charger and then i just kept touching the wires together until it started to spin lol and when it did i just taped them up, not a scientific way of doing things but it worked for me
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so u think that fan would work?
 
lofty

lofty

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weedss said:
so u think that fan would work?
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all the pc fans i have wired up over the years have all worked, i used various chargers to power them from mobile phone chargers to chargers with a switch to alter the voltage.
 
robert 14617

robert 14617

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blue is the ground in europe, if it is 12v leave the blue wire off it looks like a plastic case non conductive the remaining wires will go to your adapter
 
damonb

damonb

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ive got a pc fan like that with 3 wires cut the end off and u should only need to connnect 2 wires just keep touching the wires to test them i use a fone charger aswell then u shud b left wwith 1 wire i didnt need to use all 3 wires so i cut the third 1 i didnt need off but they work pretty good the pc fans hope this helped
 
Nusky

Nusky

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Just an FYI theres power ground and one for RPM information when plugged into a motherboard. You can get molex connectors for them (the 4 pin computer power connector) and those only use 2 wires
 
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