Arduino Pwm Fan Controller

So after that no electricity flows through it turning the fan off.

Arduino pwm fan controller. Pwm waves with various duty cycle are shown in the figure below. It then becomes a matter of telling the fan pwm to raise or lower the speed based on the temperature. Firstly make sure that you fan s are pwm controller you can check this by making sure that your fan connector has 4 wires. The arduino throttles the fans using pid logic and drives them through pwm.

There is some information out there. Beginner full instructions provided 24 154. In the above wave forms you can see that the frequency is same but on time and off time are different two applications of pwm control using arduino is shown here. Getting temperature values from a digital or analog temperature sensor on an arduino is fairly simple.

Temperature based fan speed control monitoring with arduino. The temperature and fan speed are reported through a 8 digit 7 segment display fitted on a rack mounted aluminium bar. The system uses a temperature sensor to control four fans that are driven by an arduino controller. The frequency values can be adjusted between 125 hz 8 mhz as well as a variable duty cycle.

I have been wondering about this project and how to control my 4 pin pwm fans. There is a jumper for switching the power supply from arduino or the 12v input. Pwm fan controller sketch can be downloaded here. The pc communicates with the arduino via the serial port.

It is efficient because the pass transistor is used as a switch. For this reason i used arduinos d6 pin pwm. I o pin 9 on the arduino board is directly connected to fan control input and by reading the state of 3 push buttons on pins 2 3 4 different pwm values are sent to the fan. An inexpensive single small pass transistor like 2n222 or bd139 can be used here.

A low frequency pulse width modulation pwm signal whose duty cycle is varied to adjust the fan s speed is used. The system works by an application running on the pc checking the cpu temperature and checking whether to speed up or slow down the fans. As long as the cooling is on the red led is on when not cooling the green led is on. Many projects that use a temp sensor but never the most simple thing.

How to connect it. 4 wired fan control pwm control a pwm fan with arduino. The blue led seen on the prototype board is just for verifying correct circuit. Control the speed of the fan.

I had 5 laying around and thought mine as well give it a shot. On the pcb there is a 5 12v input for the fan supply. Design schematic diagram is shown next.