• I am aware of the 90 LED limit per RGBpx channel on the FW360 and have confirmed the D30's will work within that limitation.
• The AC devices are mounted to the PC case with double sided sticky velcro tape. No direct contact to the metal case.

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This looks generally OK to me but I thought (based on your other thread) that you were going to plug the Leakshield USB directly into a mobo USB2.0 header. In your diagram, the High Flow Next and D5 Next USB are going to the mobo but the Leakshield is going to the HUbby7, which is set to get its power from the mobo USB header instead of SATA power.

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Just out of curiosity, why are you converting everything to RGBpx rather then using the native 5V connectors on the farbwerk 360s? I didn't think that there would be any functionality differences in using them, and would imply additional "failure" points by adding additional connections.

That is a fair question. I am not OP but I know some people would rather use an RGBpx adapter and cable than plug in the horrible standard DRGB connector. I don't know what its officially called. MSI calls them J-Rainbow. Asus calls them ADD GEN 2. I think there are different versions of that connector in use that have different contact pin and socket diameters. I have read posts from people who complain that their connections just fall off the mating port connectors in the Razer Chroma because the socket diameter is bigger than the pin diameter. EK even has their EK-LOOP CMS to hold these ridiculous connectors together.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but don't the D30 fans have 32 individual led's per fan? .

No. They have 30 LEDs arranged in 15 pairs of 2. When the D30 first came out, Phanteks said they had 32 LEDs. I bought a 3-pack of them and quickly discovered that they only have 30 LEDs. Now their website says 30 LEDs. I have a screen shot of when it said 32 LEDs so I know I am not crazy.

I do not like the fact that the LEDs are paired. If you connect a D30 to an RGBpx port, if you set the LED controller for 1 LED, 2 LEDs will light up. If you set the controller for 15 LEDs, all 30 LEDs will light up. The LEDs are arranged in pairs but the way they are paired is kind of strange. The first pair of LEDs are adjacent to each other. The next pair consists of the LEDs to the right and left of the first pair. If you think of the fan as a clock, the first LED pair is at 12 O'clock. The second pair are at 1 O'clock and 11 O'Clock. The third pair are at 2 O'clock and 10 O'clock, and so on. This arrangement has several issues.

#1 - Aquasuite thinks its driving 1 LED when its really driving 2. If you set the controller to 15 LEDs, Aquasuite thinks its driving 15 LEDs but its really driving 30 LEDs. This is OK if you are aware of it but it could allow you to overload the port.

#2 - Any RGB effect that sequences from LED to LED will not work properly on a D30 because of the pairing. An effect like a Chase that moves from LED to LED will look very strange on a D30.

DRGB LEDs are INDIVIDUALLY controllable, so I fail to understand why Phanteks has decided to pair the LEDs, which prevents individual control of each LED. I read somewhere that Lion Li also does this. I don't understand why. It does not save any money and it limits the control granularioty by 50%.