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Lord Twilight · 09-04-2002, 06:36 PM

Well, I understand that overloading the rheo is bad (right?) I'm just saying, that with a 5W fan, I could use a much lower voltage rheostat that will work just as well. I just don't understand why they say that they are using a 3W Rheo for fans up to 10W.. Also on FrozenCPU's website, they say with the 15W Blizzard Rheo, they used fans up to 23W.

So basically, I would want a rheo that can handle more Watts than the fan will use, and the Ohms just says how much resistance the Rheo can do, which means how much the rheo will slow down the fan, right?

09-04-2002, 06:36 PM	#7
Lord Twilight Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 47	Well, I understand that overloading the rheo is bad (right?) I'm just saying, that with a 5W fan, I could use a much lower voltage rheostat that will work just as well. I just don't understand why they say that they are using a 3W Rheo for fans up to 10W.. Also on FrozenCPU's website, they say with the 15W Blizzard Rheo, they used fans up to 23W. So basically, I would want a rheo that can handle more Watts than the fan will use, and the Ohms just says how much resistance the Rheo can do, which means how much the rheo will slow down the fan, right? __________________ I've come to suck the fun out of the night.