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Can AE5 control light on/off?

MStauning

Junior Member

Can AE5 control light on/off?

Tuesday, August 23rd 2011, 9:50am

Was thinking that the PWM1 and PWM2 outputs, could be used to power a coldcatode - or not?

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Tuesday, August 23rd 2011, 3:03pm

No, that is not possible since these ports do not provide enough power to drive a cold cathode.

Silvermaul

Junior Member

Tuesday, August 23rd 2011, 6:20pm

You could however create a rudimentary relay circuit which could control a switch and does your job :) There are tones of such circuits floating around in the web. Just google it :)

Actually I am interested in this myself since I run out of pci expansion slots on the back of my case so I would like to control this programatically.

MStauning

Junior Member

Saturday, September 3rd 2011, 3:19pm

How many watts can we draw from those ports?
And a relay is on the way, to test with..
Thanks.

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Saturday, September 3rd 2011, 3:27pm

Which ports exactly?

The normal fan headers 1 to 4 can provide up to 1.65 A at 12 V which comes to almost 20 W while the PWM ports can provide up to 1 A, they are always running with 12 V.

MStauning

Junior Member

Wednesday, September 7th 2011, 3:45am

Well havent got it by my side right now, but I'm sure they are called 12V PWM, they are right next to the fan headers 1-4.

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