DIY Light Fan

Want to have some nice light fans but you've allready bought some transparent fans?

Or you think that these ledfans are too expensive or their performance sucks?

I show you how to build one yourself!

The equipment

The fan that we’re going to use is an transparent 80mm case fan with adjustable speed. Other necessary equipment:

- A power-drill
- A 4,8mm drill
- Some superglue
- 4 bright red leds
- 4 470ohm resistors
- A Soldering iron
- Some wires
- Soldering flux
- A fan with transparent blades

Adding the leds to the case-fan

Step 1:
pick up your power-drill an put the 4,8mm drill in it. Then drill a hole in every corner in the fan:

Step 2:
Solder a resistor to the positive side of the led and put some heat shrinking tube over it. Then solder a wire to the negative side of the led and put some heat shrinking tube over it.
Now, push this led into a whole (check if it doesn’t touch the blades of the fan). If the led keeps falling out glue it in the hole with some superglue.

Step 3:
Solder a resistor to the positive side of the led and put some heat shrinking tube over it. Push this led into a hole next to the other led and connect the negative wire of the first led with the positive side (the side with the resistor)
It should look like this:

Now keep doing this with the other 2 leds until you have this:

The easy part is over, now it gets a little more difficult...

Now connect the positive wire (the wire connected to the resistor) to the positive wire of your fan ( the orange wire) and connect the negative wire to the negative wire of your fan ( the black wire).Then you'll have to connect the wires of the fan to the wires of your 3pin connector.

(My apologises for the confusing pic.)

I hope its clear, if not, here's a scheme:

Tadaaa, you’re done.
The result:

You’ve just created a red light fan for 11€. And it has adjustable RPM + more performance then other pre-made light fans.

I hope you found this howto usefull and that your final "product" looks just as nice as mine!