[mythtv-users] Quiet fans redux - ping Pete

[Yan Seiner]

Peter Loron wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>   
>> Back in October we had a discussion about quiet fans.  Pete, a list
>> member, was going to breadboard a PWM controller for fans.
>>
>> So, ping Pete!  Any progress?  :-)
>>
>> --Yan
>>     
>
> Actually, yes!  :-)
>
> It's gone much slower than I wanted, but real life keeps getting in  
> the way. 
Heh.  I've been working on reducing the clutter in my study for about 4 
months.  The problem is that there is always something more interesting 
to do than untangling cables.... :-)

> I've gone through parts selection, and gotten a breadboard  
> prototype together. I'm working through some kinks there. Hopefully  
> this weekend I'll be able to spend enough time on it (projects like  
> this have a lower WAF than weeding the garden, etc) to get the  
> hardware nailed down so I can start in earnest on the microcontroller  
> code.
>
> I obviously won't meet my original internal goal of having something  
> out in the wild by Jan 1, but hopefully early in Q1 I'll have some  
> boards made up and in the hands of some of you early adopter types.  :-)
>   
Great.  I've been playing around a bit too.  My need ATM is something 
that could control the 7 (!!!) fans in my external RAID box.  I can get 
the hdd temps via hddtemp, but a reality check on what the drives are 
reporting would be great.

--Yan