If you own a volcano 7 with smartfan and you find that the fan doesnt really spin as fast as you would like, or anywhere near its maximum rate, there are a couple of things you can do.
1) turn the fan around and put the thermal probe in between the heatsink fins, its warmer here than were the probe is originally located
2) Solder the joints of the thermal probe together, so just bridge the gap between the red and yellow wire on the circuit board with some solder, or yank off the thermal probe and twist the wires together at the end. This will make the fan spin at max. RPM at all times, doing this i was able to get it spinning steadily between 5100 and 5300RPM, but the noise level at the rate is pretty annoying.
as a side note Do NOT cut the thermal probe, this will make the fan spin at 500RPM constant, and the airflow is minimal to nothing, in pulling off the thermal probe, if you want to reattach it later, take off the little black insulators and solder the metal legs of the thermal probe back to the red and yellow wires, and you will have variable fan speed going again.
1) turn the fan around and put the thermal probe in between the heatsink fins, its warmer here than were the probe is originally located
2) Solder the joints of the thermal probe together, so just bridge the gap between the red and yellow wire on the circuit board with some solder, or yank off the thermal probe and twist the wires together at the end. This will make the fan spin at max. RPM at all times, doing this i was able to get it spinning steadily between 5100 and 5300RPM, but the noise level at the rate is pretty annoying.
as a side note Do NOT cut the thermal probe, this will make the fan spin at 500RPM constant, and the airflow is minimal to nothing, in pulling off the thermal probe, if you want to reattach it later, take off the little black insulators and solder the metal legs of the thermal probe back to the red and yellow wires, and you will have variable fan speed going again.
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