KOP fan power?
 

How are the KOP fans supposed to be powered? Namely the small ones from this year's kit and last.

Where on the PDB are they supposed to be plugged in?

Re: KOP fan power?
 

They can be plug into any of the 30amp max slots. What do you play on using it for?

Re: KOP fan power?
 

The smaller fans are generally used on Victors (wired to the input power side). And just personal experience, in the 7+ years I've been with 810, we've never had a reason to use the larger fans. But I know there's plenty of teams that do.

Re: KOP fan power?
 

The Victor fans are equivalent, but are built into the Victor. I've only used the small fans on a drill motor, used for cooling.

Re: KOP fan power?
 

True, the Victor fans are a separate piece though.

Re: KOP fan power?
 

We worked it out. We put the 2 small pabst fans into their own 30A slots (using 20A fuses) and just soldered the wires to be longer. Do test to be sure the fans work, as over half of ours from 2011 KOP were bad or broken.

We did not try wiring them in series or parallel.

Re: KOP fan power?
 

Good decision. You can split a single branch, but make sure each fan has its own direct supply and ground.