I disassembled an AMD CPU Wraith Cooler, meaning, I took the fan off of the heatsink, because I want to attach the fan on top of a Raspberry Pi that I’m using as a router. The Pi runs quite hot because it transmits several hundred megabytes per second, non stop, and I want to give it some cooling. (It already has its own heatsinks on its various chips inside the chassi and I don’t want to use the little shitty Okdo fan, because it’s loud.)
Is there any smart solution to how I could power this 4-pin fan? It needs 12V DC.
This is the Pi with its chassi.
And I’m considering something barbaric like this.
Are there perhaps conveniently positioned GPIO pins on the Pi that the 4-pin connector could just slide on to and just work? Never mind this. The Pi 4 that I’m using can only output 5V:
Or would I need to cut off the 4-pin connector to expose the individual wires and attach them to a 12V DC adapter?
Or any other genuis solutions? :)
I think PWM fans need 12V all the time. Maybe you have a cheap 3-pin fan, then you can just give it 5V. It’ll run slower, but you probably don’t need full power.
You could get a cheap boost convert to up 5V to 12V if you want the Pi to power it.
I had no idea the Pi’s output could be boosted. Sweet!