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Cooling Fan Circuits
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Dual Fan Controller -  A birthday present gone too far. An overengineered temperature-based automatic twin fan controller with brass face to keep a kitchen PC cool. . . .  [Robot Room website]

 

Eddie's Composting Loo fan controller -  In my Dalek loo page I wrote about a range of options to improve the cost effectiveness of a solar powered extraction fan for composting toilets. At the deluxe end of the range was one incorporating a range of sensors including temperature and humidity. . . .  [Eddie Matejowsky]

 

Fan On/Off Control by Light -  This circuit lets you turn on/off a fan by just directing torchlight or other light toward its light-dependent resistor (LDR). The circuit is powered from a 5V power supply. . . .  [© EFY Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.]

Fan Remote Control -  The gadget comes with off/on, three fan speeds, and multicolored LEDs to indicate the fan’s speed. As a bonus, it beeps to indicate that the fan got your message. . . .  [Andrew R. Morris, Gadget Freak Case #198, Design News]

 

Fan Speed Control in PCs and Servers -  Scroll to find this circuit. . .  [Analog Devices-Analog Dialogue by Hanrahan, David]

 

Fan Speed Controller -  Simple circuit for fan speed control based on thermal feedback. To reduce product noise. Design Idea   was rejected! Years later companies are making millions from such circuits. . . .  [Jim Haggerman, Hagerman Technology LLC]

 

Grounding for Low-and High-Frequency Circuits -  Know Your Ground and Signal Paths for Effective Designs. Current Flow Seeks Path of Least Impedance-Not Just Resistance. . . .  [AN-345: Analog Devices Application Note]

 

Implementing Temperature-Based Variable Fan Speed Control in Nlx Power Supplies -  Application Note Published 4-Feb-03  . . .  [Microchip]

 

Intelligent Thermal Management using Brushless DC Fans -  Application Note Published 24-Feb-03. . .  [Microchip]

 

Interfacing Microchip’s Fan Speed Controllers to a SPI? -  Application Note Published 12-Nov-02  . . .  [Microchip]

 

IR Digital Thermostat for FAN -  This circuit measures temperature in Celsius scale and displays it on an alphanumeric LCD screen When temperature rise to 40 C an alarm is activated and at the same time a relay is also activated which drives a fan to keep the temperature at a level. . .  [by IQ Technologies Industry, unless otherwise noted online]

 

Linear Voltage Fan Speed Control using Microchip's TC64x Family TC642, TC646, TC648 -  Application Note Published 27-Jul-04  . . .  [Microchip]

 

MOSFET switch provides efficient AC/DC conversion -  02/17/00 EDN Design Idea   Occasionally, you have access to a transformer for powering a dc circuit, but its output voltage is much higher than that required for the dc voltage. The full-wave-rectified and filtered output of an ac input voltage V X , is V . . .  [by Spehro Pephany, Trexon Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada ]

 

Noise Filtering & the ADT7461 -  AN-699 Analog Devices Application Note  . . . 

 

Programming the Automatic Fan Speed Control Loop -  AN-613 Analog Devices Application Note. . . 

 

Protect system from overheating -  11/08/01  EDN Design Idea   The two-chip circuit in Figure 1 provides fan control and overtemperature warning and shutdown signals to protect systems from excessive heat. The circuit monitors the temperature of the pc board and the die temperature of a CPU, an. . .  [by Kerry Lacanette, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA]

 

Protects System from Overheating -  11/08/01  EDN Design Idea   The two-chip circuit in Figure 1 provides fan control and overtemperature warning and shutdown signals to protect systems from excessive heat. The circuit monitors the temperature of the pc board and the die temperature of a CPU, an. . .  [by Kerry Lacanette, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA]

 

Provide efficient fan-speed control -  03/04/04  EDN Design Idea   As Moore's Law plunges us into the realm of multigigahertz processors and PCs with gigabytes of RAM, engineers face the task of removing the heat that these state-of-the-art components produce. Cooling such systems poses a dilemma. . . .  [by John Guy, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA]

 

Provides Efficient Fan-Speed Control -  03/04/04  EDN Design Idea   As Moore's Law plunges us into the realm of multigigahertz processors and PCs with gigabytes of RAM, engineers face the task of removing the heat that these state-of-the-art components produce. Cooling such systems poses a dilemma. . . .  [by John Guy, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA]

 

PWM fan controller in an EMI-susceptible circuit -  02/16/06  EDN Design Idea   Control it with either an external negative-temperature-coefficient thermistor or a PIC microcontroller and its SMBus serial-data bus. . .  [by Dimitri Danyuk, Niles Audio Corp]

 

Redundant Fan Systems using the TC647 Fan Manager -  Application Note Published 4-Feb-02  . . .  [Microchip]

 

Remote Fan Control -  You can get a remote control for tower fans, but they’re too noisy for the bedroom. Propeller fans are nice and quiet, but they don’t come with remotes. So Andy devised a propeller fan remote control that does not require line-of-sight, which makes it easier to use in the dark. . . .  [Andrew R. Morris, Gadget Freak Case #198, Design News]

 

Simple temperature regulated FAN speed Controller -  This regulator uses a P-FET to change the positive supply voltage to a FAN an NTC resistor mounted on the device that needs cooling will change the fan speed, the temperature on the heat sink will therefore be constant, while the FAN speed will change, depending on power disipated The RPM output signal from most FAN types will continue to function, . . . 

 

Single Control Switch for Fan and AC -  Here is an electronic switch that can be used to switch on both the air-conditioner as well as fan of your room, one by one. . . .  [© EFY Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.]

 

Speed Error in PWM Fan Control Systems TC646, TC647, TC649 -  Application Note Published 27-Jul-04  . . .  [Microchip]

 

Suppressing Acoustic Noise in PWM Fan Speed Control Systems -  Application Note Published 27-Jul-04  . . .  [Microchip]

 

System monitors multiple temperatures, controls fan speed -  10/12/00 EDN Design Idea   The block diagram in Figure 1 represents a complete remote-temperature-sensing and fan-control system. The system uses an Analog Devices temperature-monitor and fan-control ASIC and a PIC16C84 µC from Microchip Technology. The AD. . .  [by David Hanrahan, Analog Devices Inc, Limerick, Ireland]

 

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