Need help with wiring CFL from inside of PSU IEC connection (electrician)? PC grow

i forgot the name of it, but it filters the signal to the psu, your probably going to want to remove it and wire the two live wires to the holder.
Also, the white thing is probably a capacitor, for further smoothing, you can remove that.

 

yep, should do fine

 

You said you plan to wire that fan to your light socket? Most standard computer fans are 12v DC, if so you need to wire it to a 12v cell charger or something similar. Check the markings on the fan to check for voltage/amperage ratings. If it was powered from the motherboard, it is most likely 12v DC.

Perhaps you were aware of that already, just wanted to throw it out there so your case doesn't go up in smoke (pun intended)

 

erm... what? if your thinking of wiring them in series, itll fry the fans, one charger would probably be enough, the fan will just run slightly slower, check the amperage on the back of the charger, if its enough for both fans, it should be fine.

 

You couldn't wire the cell chargers to a single plug receptacle without taking apart the cell charger. This would be difficult and tedious, easy to short something out. Just plug them in as usual. If you need to minimize outlets used, use a three way splitter (converts single outlet into dual or even 3 outlets)

Edit: I may have mis understood your question, If you meant wiring both fans to one charger, that is possible if the charger can handle the max amp draw of both fans.

 

okay, so you attach all the red wires(positive) to each other, and all the black wires(negative) to each other, then thats parallel, which means they are running at 9v but use double the current, so if one is 500ma, they will use 1000ma.

 

ok, you are going to need some sort of multi-meter in order to do this but you need to figure which of the blue/orange wires is your pos and neg, then LABEL THEM!! next, leave the little white box on the connection as it is an RF filter and will help with small surges which will help keep your lights from flickering. as for the fans, find yourself a cell charger that has 12v dc output, simply cut the end off that goes into the phone and attach to the leads to your fan..

now for wiring the light, depending on the size and number of cfl's you intend to use you might want to add more than 1 edison socket (regular light socket.) wire nuts and/or buttsplices are a necessity to cover exposed electrical connections.

 

Yep, thats prettymuch it, in parallel the amps double, in series the voltage doubles

 

Tried to post this yesterday but I got an internal server error.

In parallel (one pos and neg to each fan) both fans get 9 volts, and charger outputs as many amps as both fans require.

So lets say you have (2) 12 volt fans each rated at 500mA. At 12 volts, if both fans draw max amps (500mA) the charger will output 1000mA. Heres the tricky part... Total max wattage is fixed due to a fixed resistance. With less voltage, more amps can flow because electrons have less resistance to flow. In short, when your voltage decreases, amperage increases in direct correlation. Amp draw does depend on load, but I am giving you a calculation simply for sizing your charger.

Watts = volts x amps
Amps = watts / volts
Volts = watts / amps

So a 12 volt fans that draws 500mA...

12 volts x .5 amps (500mA) = 6 watts
6 watts / 12 volts = .5 amps

But at 9 volts...

6 watts / 9 volts = .667 amps (667mA)

So your 500mA fan at 9 volts is going to pull 667 mA roughly, with a load on the fan amp draw may decrease. Oversizing your charger is not critical, but due to increased heat with increased amp draw, an undersized charger will burn out quicker. How quick...depends on real world situations, that cannot be expressed in math.

Hope this gives you a better understanding. Cheers

 

nope, just use the two live wires. Just finished wiring up an array of those lights