Started bright and early in the morning before it got hot in the garage, so this update is brought to you by Sobe No Fear Sugar Free!
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DON'T MOD TIRED!
Here we see a Swiftech 655 pump that needs to have it's power and RPM leads sleeved.
Always try to have the proper tools ready for use before working on something like this. If you don't have the proper tools, research how others have done it on the Intarwebz!
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Never force a tool on these parts, you will break the molex pin if you do not exercise caution...
Also, take a good pictorial reference of the parts *before* you pull them apart. Cannot tell you how much tome I have lost on past mods where I pulled something apart before I noticed that "it was put together a bit differently..."
After extracting your pins from the molexes, you will want to make sure your retention clips are in good shape. On the Mini fan molexes, there is a small clip on the back side of the flat piece. In the below pic, the clip is the bright rectangle in the middle of the silver tip on the blue cable:
On these two pins, they are side flares off of the main molex pin. The bottom black cable is showing the retention clip nicely.
Typically what I do to make sure the clips are in good shape is use a very sharp bladed surface, like an xacto knife or a razor blade, *gently* work it below the clip and gently angle it out ever so slightly. It does not require much in order to catch on the plastics of the molex once re-inserted. Be careful and patient here. You are dealing with a very sharp instrument, so be neither quick, nor casual on these steps, else you will injure yourself.
After sleeving the wire and using heatshrink on the ends to hold the sleeving in place, here was what I was left with:
Feeling good, I set to work on a proof of concept. Passing the 12v fan power through a 1/4" jack plug. 12v is passed on the top connection (the one with the loose heatshrink. The ground is soldered to the center leg of the jack.
I put the jacket back over the plug, and then soldered the 90 degree connector and created the circuit. I then used alligator clips on a 12v test line that I created and use all the friggen time, to make sure the fan spun up and did not cause issues...
The concept worked flawlessly!!
Mind you, this is just "beta building" to get a feel for how the parts work together. The cables will eventually be housed in something more substantial to make them more appropriate to the size of the jacks...
-=TD