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Unclejonny 02-04-2022 11:41 AM

Need help with making a brushless fan into a camping fan.
 
Been doing some internet searching and I can't find a way to manually control the speed with a brushless radiator fan 3 or 4 wire. I think they have a built in esc. The BMW brushless fans have 2 big wires and 1 little wire going to the fan. Mercedes and others have 2 big wires and 2 little wires. My plan is to make a frame to hold the fan (kind of like a box fan) and have the fully adjustable speed control on top. But I don't know what all I need to control the speed. I have a 12v lithium battery to power it. Any suggestions? I want to do this for the efficiency of the brushless fan and it would push more air too. From what I gathered I think all I need is a low input signal pwm but not sure. And also I wouldn't know how to wire. Any good input would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!!

Unclejonny 02-08-2022 09:59 AM

Nobody?

camcojb 02-08-2022 11:30 AM

They make DC controllers for brushless fans with multiple amp and watt outputs. Not sure what your budget is

https://www.anaheimautomation.com/ma...waAk0kEALw_wcB

https://www.groschopp.com/control/brushless/

ADY 02-09-2022 03:50 PM

I have this fan for camping if that has decent flow and saves you the time building your own:

https://smile.amazon.com/Quick-Produ...s%2C149&sr=8-5

Unclejonny 02-11-2022 08:19 AM

Thank you! I'll call those places today. And thank you for sending me a link to that fan.

andrewb70 02-12-2022 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unclejonny (Post 717471)
Been doing some internet searching and I can't find a way to manually control the speed with a brushless radiator fan 3 or 4 wire. I think they have a built in esc. The BMW brushless fans have 2 big wires and 1 little wire going to the fan. Mercedes and others have 2 big wires and 2 little wires. My plan is to make a frame to hold the fan (kind of like a box fan) and have the fully adjustable speed control on top. But I don't know what all I need to control the speed. I have a 12v lithium battery to power it. Any suggestions? I want to do this for the efficiency of the brushless fan and it would push more air too. From what I gathered I think all I need is a low input signal pwm but not sure. And also I wouldn't know how to wire. Any good input would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!!

This should do the trick:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It doesn't go below 1000Hz but when I did some testing with the Volt fans, it seemed to work just fine:



Andrew

Unclejonny 02-22-2022 08:04 AM

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!! I think that controller will be just fine for what I'm doing. I'll get it ordered.


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