help with fan control

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Help, I want to built a circuit which can automatically on the water pump when water in the pipe line and off the pump when water supply stop.
 
My pc has fans that change their RPMs depending on the temperature (how hard the processor is thinking about things). They are big enough to spin fairly slowly (but still blow a lot of air) so they are fairly quiet.

yeah but I mean do I really need a 40mm fan to spin at 17,000rpms on a 0C/32F morning just backing out of a parking space for 10 seconds?

During the summer months it should do it's job well. Plus the fan wont spin now until it's near 80F.
 
I have never seen a fan as small as 40mm. No wonder it spins fast and makes a noise.
Why do you have such a small fan?
 
I have never seen a fan as small as 40mm. No wonder it spins fast and makes a noise.
Why do you have such a small fan?


You must be kidding right? Its a bog standard size 40mm x 40mm, look through farnell or Radio shack and you will find plenty.
 
What do you use a tiny fan for? It hardly blows any air. The most expensive one blows a lot more air than the cheap ones and its noise level is also much higher.
 
What is the fan for? A car?

Yes it's being mounted on a heatsink in which will have a LED on it given the size I had to work with around the light housing I had to go with a smaller size.

the fan I brought was one of the highest CFM's I could find which is around 10.

of course I would of loved to go with a larger size but that wont be able to be possible at all.
 
What do you use a tiny fan for? It hardly blows any air. The most expensive one blows a lot more air than the cheap ones and its noise level is also much higher.

This type of fan is often mounted directly above the CPU in a PC, blowing onto the CPU mounted on a heatsink.

Modern PC's have temperature sensors as part of the CPU, which in turn control the on/off speed of the minifan.
They are not noisy, but you can hear a change in sound level as the CPU gets busy.
 
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