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hey, can somebody give me a tip? i want to control a fan cooler using arduino, nothing very complicated, just turn on and off. Do i need a shield or anything like this? Or can i just connect the red, black and yellow wires directly in the arduino's board? Thx

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A transistor or MOSFET to switch it on and off would be needed - is this a standard 12V computer cooling fan ?

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Yep. standart cooler. Can u give me an example of the code? Can i use a potentiometer instead?

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They are a brushless motor plus controller all on one unit.  Some are controllable, some aren't, but they usually run fine from 7V upto about 15V, speed proportional to voltage - although this is a convenient way to control usually.  Controllable speed ones have a pin to control them, many have a sense pin that is used on a motherboard by the bios to detect if the fan bearings have siezed up.

Simple on-off control (not PWM) is just a transistor I think (perhaps a protection diode too?)

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i have two of then, one with 2 wires (black and red) and the other one with 3 wires (b,r, and yellow). i guess the last one is controlable. All i wanna do is to find a way to turn it on and of. maybe change the speed, but that's not my primary objective. just wanna know how to do this

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The yellow wire on your second fan is the tacho output, not a control input. You can switch them on and off using a mosfet.

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thanks bros