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How to wire a lot of fans

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So we have hit a little brick wall not to much, but we have 5 fans for our 2 talons and 3 victors an it would take up 1 whole 30A strip on our PD board if we were to wire them all with it. So what we were wondering is if there are any other legal ways of powering them.
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Re: How to wire a lot of fans

Why don't you want to wire them to the speed controllers input power like normal?
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Re: How to wire a lot of fans

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Why don't you want to wire them to the speed controllers input power like normal?
Ya that's what we normally do.
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Re: How to wire a lot of fans

You have two options:


Wiring them from the speed controller power input is covered under R65 part D.

Powering all of the fans from a single circuit breaker is covered in the blue box for R45 - join all of the power leads from the fans together, and run 1 wire from that to the WAGO connector.
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