1 Topic by Musi09

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Topic: Fan is slowly dying.

Hey guys,

I noticed that my fan keeps making ticking noises.  I know it's going to give soon.

I was wondering if someone can take me step by step on how to install a new fan?

This is for the fan on top of the extruder assuming its for the gears.

big_smile please help a newbie out!

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2 Reply by Claghorn

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Re: Fan is slowly dying.

It is just a standard 40mm computer fan. I replaced mine when it was making annoying grinding noises using one of these expensive but fantastically quiet ones:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NQ … &psc=1

It comes with a lot of different connectors for hooking it up, among them was some little "buttons" you can use to splice wires without fooling with solder and shrink wrap. I simply cut the wires off the existing fan (as close to the fan as possible to leave slack in the cable) and also cut the wire on the new fan and stripped off the outer wrap to expose the individual wires, then I simply stuck the matching wires in the buttons and pressed them down with pliers. It has been almost totally silent and has worked great.

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3 Reply by Musi09

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Re: Fan is slowly dying.

sweet, seems that fan has ball bearings as well.

I was doing some reading and everyone stated to go with ball bearing fans cuz the lightweight and longer life + quiet.

I wish it was amazon prime!  I'll take a look around.

thanks!

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4 Reply by spapadim

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Re: Fan is slowly dying.

There are Prime sellers for the Noctua at +$3 or so.  My fan died completely and I also just cut off the wires, except I replaced with this cheaper ball-bearing fan and also soldered a JST connector so I can change easily in the future if needed.

5 Reply by Serin

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Re: Fan is slowly dying.

The Noctua's are great, didn't see one return on any back when I was working at a pc-tech warehouse smile

This is a crowd funding thing that I'm running: http://www.gofundme.com/bvi140 It's for pretty selfish reasons tongue

6 Reply by muddtt

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Re: Fan is slowly dying.

I had to RMA my noctua fan. One of the wire's had a problem and would stop the fan a lot. Probably from all the moving it had to do along that cable wrap. No problem though cause they shipped me a new one. I would still buy again. Great fan...very quiet.