Can 1 probe control all fans?

[floontastic]

Hi all,

I've never used a fan controller before, and the documentation doesn't do a good job explaining what auto actually does.

Questions:

1) Is auto per fan? As in, 2 fans auto-adjust while the other 3 stay at their manual settings

2)Can 1 probe control all 5 fans?

I want all 5 fans to adjust based on a single ambient case temperature.

I guess I could approximate this behavior by putting all 5 probes at the same point in the case, but that doesn't guarantee all fans are behaving the same, and it means I lose the ability to monitor any other hardware.

[ivybat]

The answer to both of your questions is sadly no...

Ambient case temperature, however, generally does not fluctuate very much. Because of this, the best solution to your situation would be to leave all fans on manual, and simply use the temperature probes for monitoring (that's how I do it). Know that it is possible to change all 5 fans' speeds at once.

What do ya say?

[floontastic]

What do ya say?

Your solution sounds ideal for me, I was just wondering how much control I could get out of auto. I don't want much variation in the fans except to be able to respond to ambient room temperature, like making the fans do more work in a hot summer. Manually adjusting it twice a year is certainly no issue.

I'm also happy to finally find a display that doesn't assume one of the fans is a CPU fan.

One last thing - the documentation mentions an alarm sounds when the fan is disconnected during operation. Does that mean you have to physically unplug the fan to hear an alarm, or is it enough that the RPMs unexpectedly go to 0?

One reviewer mentioned that he heard an alarm only when the sensor cable was unplugged while turning on the machine. But I'm thinking he read the instructions wrong since the wording implies disconnection AFTER the system is turned on.