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Re: Quick Q for "noob" at first

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Originally Posted by Q Branch 4327 View Post
I have a question for you we have plugged in fans to a main source of power and now they are burnt out would u have any clue why?
Can you give any more details on the connection and where the fans are? At a guess, you ran 'em through a breaker that was too big--I'd suggest no more than a 20A breaker, and several fans on it at that.

I've never seen a fan fry if connected to its speed controller's inputs, BTW.


Oh, and one other thing:

Holy ancient thread revival Batman!
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