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Scott711 · 02.03.2006, 05:53 PM

I was wondering the same thing, so I did an experiment with a cpu fan I had laying around. It is rated at 12 VDC and 0.18 amps on the lable. I just cut the leads and touched them straight to the battery leads of my 5s lipo set (18.5 volts). It ran fine so I straped it to the motor for a test run and It seems just fine, kept the motor cooler and didn't blow up or anything from excess voltage.

To hook the fan into the system I just terminated the pos. & neg. leads from the fan to the same connectors I use for the esc, ubec and lvc so all leads are soldered to the appropriate terminal and then plug the whole thing into the batteries. I guess time will tell if it burns up the fan prematurly.

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Scott711 RC-Monster Carbon Fiber Offline Posts: 116 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: DesMoines, WA	02.03.2006, 05:53 PM I was wondering the same thing, so I did an experiment with a cpu fan I had laying around. It is rated at 12 VDC and 0.18 amps on the lable. I just cut the leads and touched them straight to the battery leads of my 5s lipo set (18.5 volts). It ran fine so I straped it to the motor for a test run and It seems just fine, kept the motor cooler and didn't blow up or anything from excess voltage. To hook the fan into the system I just terminated the pos. & neg. leads from the fan to the same connectors I use for the esc, ubec and lvc so all leads are soldered to the appropriate terminal and then plug the whole thing into the batteries. I guess time will tell if it burns up the fan prematurly.