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Thermostat for computer fan without microcontroller

Thermostat for computer fan without microcontroller


The author of Instructables under the nickname Eriobis uses the PlayStation game console (which model he does not indicate) not for its intended purpose, but as a signal source in the audio system. For example, using the browser available in it, you can listen to streaming services and Internet radio stations. This is impractical, since even in this mode the console consumes significant power and heats up. Make her eat less homemade impossible, easier to replace with a tablet, there is also a browser there. But you can cool it down - with an ordinary computer fan. So that he does not "hammer" continuously at full power, you can use any thermostat. Mercury immediately disappears for an obvious reason, there are contact and electronic. Of the contact ones, for example, YCE-TNO-00-60 is suitable, he does not care which fan to switch, he will also cope with the computer one. But he commutes the fan abruptly, which may interfere with listening to music. Well, it’s more interesting to take an electronic thermostat than ready-made, but assembled do it yourself.

I have already translated an article about one such device, which is quite complicated: a microcontroller, a display, smooth regulation of the fan speed with a PWM. It is suitable for those who are not satisfied with the heating of the transistor that controls the fan. If you come to terms with this shortcoming, you can apply the KISS principle to the thermostat and repeat the following scheme after the master:



What a shame it happens when one of two comparators or op-amps is not used in the microcircuit. With the TL081 microcircuit, it won’t be offensive - the op-amp (which the master mistakenly called the comparator) has only one. The first voltage divider connected to the op-amp non-inverting input has an NTC thermistor at the top. By rearranging the links, you can adapt the circuit to a PTC thermistor. At the second divider connected to the inverting input of the op-amp, the lower link is a tuning resistor. A DC amplifier on one transistor is connected to the output of the op-amp, which controls the fan.The fan motor is with electronic switching of the windings with synchronization from the Hall sensor, therefore, no diode is needed, connected in parallel with the fan in reverse polarity.

Having assembled the circuit on a piece of a perfboard type board, the wizard connects a power supply and a fan to the device. Since the transistor operates in linear mode, it needs a heat sink.



After checking the assembled thermostat in action, the master places the thermistor so that it quickly responds to console heating, and the fan so that it effectively cools it. And he adjusts the thermostat with a trimming resistor so that the console does not overheat, but the fan is noisy not too loud.



The proposed thermostat is also suitable for a computer fan that cools the Raspberry Pi, an amplifier or other electronic device.
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R555
there are probably lower temperatures
KSD-301 operating temperature range 45 ° C - 180 ° C, reset 35 ° C - 140 ° C, in increments of 3-5 ° C, depending on version. Permissible deviation of the response temperature ± 5%, ± 10%. There are NO and NC contacts yes
R555
the ability to fine tune to the desired temperature
It depends on what is meant by accuracy! Strictly speaking, to fine-tune the desired temperature, the ambient temperature must be taken into account! yes
Quote: R555
The advantage of this device can be considered the ability to fine tune to the desired temperature.
If we consider it simply as an abstract temperature regulator, then yes. In this case, it is not necessary to precisely maintain the temperature, but only not exceeding a certain value.
The advantage of this device can be considered the ability to fine tune to the desired temperature.
A small drawback is that the transistor operates in linear mode, and therefore requires a small heatsink. But, if necessary, this can easily be eliminated by adding a feedback circuit that turns the operational amplifier into a Schmitt trigger.
Correctly, such a thermal relay is called not KDS, but KSD.
How it looks, how it connects and how it works, you can see here KSD 301
It is shown in the operation of the relay at 110 * C, for sure there are also at lower temperatures. Please note that it is at 250 V and 10 A, which I wrote about earlier. Of course, it’s easy to control the fan.
Guest Alexander offers, in my opinion, the simplest (nowhere simpler) option with a "low-temperature" thermal relay with bimetallic plates and normally open contacts.

I dealt with these things. They are used in the circuit of auto heating casings of street cameras. Moreover, they are designed for switching voltage not only 12 V DC, but also for 220 V AC, with a decent current. And as Alexander writes correctly, these “pills” have hysteresis, it is important that they do not click back and forth near their operating temperature.

True, those who stood in the chambers had an inclusion temperature of degrees, no matter how 20 degrees Celsius. Maybe I confuse, I write from memory. And here it is necessary that the fan turns on from 40 degrees. I will look at the data that can now be found from these devices.
I usually use a simpler scheme without opamps: a thermistor + field worker + trimmer. If you need something more powerful on / off, I add a relay + protective diode against self-induction.
does not use the PlayStation game console (which model, does not indicate) for its intended purpose

Just the same in a straight line. And to play games, for this there is an Xbox;)))
Guest Alexander
Why complicate things? You can put a mechanical KDS with normally open contacts, 60 degrees. The hysteresis to it is about 15 * C
And here I am the other day the charger for a car battery pile up, now I’m working on the case. It turns out 130 x 100 x 65 ... and you need a fan. So to me now? Customize dimensions for computer 120 mm.?
At one time, when the fans were small and noisy, he also experimented with power management, then quit. Modern computer 120 mm 12 V fans are virtually silent, and even more so when powered by 9 V. yes

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