Meganode & PowerBoard Temperature Based RPM Control

[@perw12345]

And we've come full circle, back to the fan controllers of old.

[@1BigBen]

just more compact, you could put 2 Mega-Node into floppy 3.5 bay and have 2 knobs for 32 fans and 2 knobs for 4 pumps vs 5.25 inch bay 4 knobs fans controller

[@itzSalty_]

And we never should have left them, really. If companies had made smaller versions of their fan controllers, they'd sell pretty well, I think. Instead we've had to rely on terrible software solutions.

[@mammothkiwi]

Thanks for this video! This seems to create a simple way to control fan speed based on temperature. For fans which have a broader range of RPM speeds, from 0rpm to 3000rpm like the Hyte THICC FP12, 30% minimums could be pretty loud. Is there an option to have lower percentages, closer to 0%? Also, with 300w on tap I'm assuming that you can run multiple daisy chained fans with high draw in parallel? Whats the max draw per channel?

[@Dunkelelf3]

i guess it's done as a failsafe cause many fans won't start spinning at low percentages. it works if you start at 50% and adjust down but if you boot up the system they won't start spinning

[@marshall7785]

What cables do you use to power the pumps? My pumps are sata powered

[@HugoVanArt]

The progress you and your Team have made in the last two years is very amazing. Thanks, Daniel ❤

[@-MaXuS-]

Wait…why would you need to have so damn much potential power output? Nobody’s gonna be particularly stoked about using PCIe power cables to power fans and a pump(s)…to be honest, it’s silly guys, I’m sorry but it is. I to want emphasize that I’m not the regular whiny “why would anyone do this or that, or pay for that or this, or you might only get a few percentage points in performance improvement by spending so many more hundreds or thousands of dollars…🤮” type of guy..nope definitely not me! 😆 even though I obviously sound like one with this post I can assure that’s not where I’m coming from. No I customize, mod and spend “unreasonably” much on so called “redundant” or “unnecessary” components. And just as the next tech nerd for whom the default/stock and/or original configurations won’t suffice 🧐 I happily invest the time while begrudgingly spending the money for whatever weird unique I want or need for my setup.🤓 However, who ever uses 150 watts, or even more than that, for running fans and pumps…sure it might be a limitation of my imagination or whatever. I have a pretty wild setup with a 480, 360, 280, and a 140mm radiator. All radiator fans AND my D5 pump I can just run straight from my Apex Z690 motherboard. All of it! Running it straight off of the motherboard! And you know what..I could even run my setup like this on my old Z390 board as well. Sure it might be the case that it’s a manufacturer specific feature that Asus provides with the 36W pump header. But even without that I’d rather run it off of molex or worse yet sata as opposed to PCIe power connectors. I can’t imagine many from the already extremely niche group of potential customers of such gear would see powering their fans and pumps with PCIe as a something other than one of those unfortunate quirks one is “forced” to live with as it comes with certain manufacturers…just saying it doesn’t have to be like that for no good reason. I would go ahead and ask the community what they’d prefer if they could choose what type of power input connector for a use case like this. Perhaps run a poll on your website, discord, or whatever, asking what kind of power connector they’d choose from, of course a limited set of viable alternatives. You could even try running the same poll here on KZbin as well though I don’t know how many of your customers would actually find that poll so not sure about its relevance. Anyway..I actually do like what y’all are doing even if your “cases”, which are just awe inspiring btw, that I’ve seen have been too not stiff and sturdy let’s say. At least for my personal taste. 🫶👋✌️🖖

[@fire23wong]

I received and installed the Mini-Node today. It works excellently and is very easy to use. I doubt anyone would need the Mega-Node, as 150W should be sufficient for most users. Currently, I am running 12 T30 120mm fans (push-pull configure on 2 x360 rads), 2 140mm fans, 2 D5 pumps, and a Razer RGB hub from the Mini-Node without any issues.

[@robmasters3569]

Man this is a sick piece of product design and engineering. I can't wait to get my hands on some of these. I love it every time you release a new product as you always manage to excite me with your innovation and your attention to the finer details on every level. Love it, absolutely love it ! ! !

[@miken966]

When my Stream-M Dual, finally, ships will it have this built into its power-board?

[@themeeksproject9785]

luv this and effective as always good job guys!!

[@1BigBen]

I like this, as ASUS in ca 2014 f-ed up their onboard fan and pump controls by one update, that they were in no hurry to fix. now I have 4xfan on each of my radiators with sata power fan PCB-8-WAY PWM, can I plug it to the TCTRL PWM Node and to Mini-Node this would let skip the glorified German fan hub, but have less temp sensor in put, but this would still be a win

[@Sossingro]

Honestly, I think rather than a potentiometer, going the same route as VIA keyboards would be better. No downloadable software on your PC, just a web interface that you can access, flash your settings, then forget. Potentiometers are fine, but having a GUI with a fan curve would be better.

[@yamuiemata]

Dumb question but how is it different from having a Aquaero?

[@JoseRodriguez-ge6pp]

with an aquaero you still need to install the software and set up fan curves.

[@TechDoneRight1]

can't wait to put this in the waterbox. keeps everything simple and straightforward. my kind of product for sure.

[@elior77]

Aquaero for dummies

[@TechNaOkami]

Thinking about it, it would go against the intened simplicity of the controller. But can a microphone be attached to someone like this and it just ramps the fans up till it "hears" them. So that way givin whatever load the system is,itll try and stay as fast as possible. But i can understand how that could be very complicated without a microprocessor and some very clever code. To which the items in the video would do that no sweat and cheaper

[@1BigBen]

more fan speed, more cooling, more noise more load, more heat, less pc speed. only thing a sound sensor would do is keep system under X noise decibel at cost of top performance Ooohhh, now I get it, for total Air cool system, just watercool it and get high quality fans

[@BALDYMANS123]

stunning work

[@jessebunting4303]

1st

[@giffy7962]

Awesome products