I bought an 80 mm case fan with a three pin connector. Unfortunately,
the lead was too short to reach the connector on the motherboard. So I
need either an adaptor to convert the fan to a Molex connector model,
or an extension lead to take the three pin lead to the motherboard.
Can anyone either supply me with one of these, or suggest a company
that might supply me with one.

Thanks.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:11:47 +0100
Multithreaded  wrote:

> I bought an 80 mm case fan with a three pin connector. Unfortunately,
> the lead was too short to reach the connector on the motherboard. So I
> need either an adaptor to convert the fan to a Molex connector model,
> or an extension lead to take the three pin lead to the motherboard.
> Can anyone either supply me with one of these, or suggest a company
> that might supply me with one.
> 
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37058
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=98965
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=34544

But I'd probably just splice in some extra bits of wire.

Rob Morley wrote:
>>
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37058
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=98965
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=34544
>
> But I'd probably just splice in some extra bits of wire.

I was in exactly the same position as the OP a couple of weeks back and had 
to use the 3pin to Molex adaptor that came with the fan. Unfortunately this 
means that you lose the motherboard's fan monitoring functions.

The 3pin extension lead looks extremely useful. I guess splicing the 
original fan leads is an option but would end up costing me in purchasing 
the copper wire!

-- 
Peter <X-Files fan>

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:29:48 +0100, Rob Morley 
wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:11:47 +0100
>Multithreaded  wrote:
>
>> I bought an 80 mm case fan with a three pin connector. Unfortunately,
>> the lead was too short to reach the connector on the motherboard. So I
>> need either an adaptor to convert the fan to a Molex connector model,
>> or an extension lead to take the three pin lead to the motherboard.
>> Can anyone either supply me with one of these, or suggest a company
>> that might supply me with one.
>> 
>http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37058
>http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=98965
>http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=34544
>
>But I'd probably just splice in some extra bits of wire.

Thanks for the links, Rob.

>The 3pin extension lead looks extremely useful. I guess splicing the 
>original fan leads is an option but would end up costing me in purchasing 
>the copper wire!

My fan only has two wires: no speed sense as I'd hoped it would. So I
lose nothing going over to a Molex solution.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:35:29 +0100
"Trust No One®"  wrote:

>  I guess splicing the 
> original fan leads is an option but would end up costing me in
> purchasing the copper wire!

I keep broken electrical/electronic stuff so I can scavenge useful bits
from it.  :-)