[TriEmbed] laptop fan motor control question

Michael Monaghan mike at chipworks.net
Tue Feb 2 12:20:22 CST 2021


Generally speaking, CPU fans and computer cooling fans have a 12v input and
a pwm speed indicator output. Black and Red are common and power, yellow or
blue is speed indicator. You can safely ignore the indicator.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 1:15 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org>
wrote:

> I pulled a fan/heatpipe assembly out of a laptop to have for future
> experiments and wonder what sort of control I need for it's three wire
> motor connection? Here's the label on the outside. The DC resistance
> between any two pins with any polarity is much higher than I would have
> expected: thousands of ohms.
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
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