Building PC growbox need Electrical help

Bublonichronic

Bublonichronic

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whats up, i was trying to build a PCgrowbox but cant figure out the wiring...i want to try and connect the 2 PCfans and the CFL lights to the PC power supply...but know nothing as a electrician and was hoping the fine people at this site would help me out..some pics to try and better show what i wanna do...any help or advice will be well appreciated:leaf::peace:
 

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The PC fans will just need to be conected to the yellow and black wires coming out of the pwr supply.

Here is the rub if it is an ATX pwr supply, on the big motherboard plug ,your gonna have to connect the dark green wire to a black wire to get the pwr supply to turn on (motherboard turns it on)

if it's an older AT type supply no prob

the pwr supply will not run your CFL's you will have to get 110 AC to em

I work on em every day :bigjoint:

PS I looked again yours is an ATX
 
For PC fans I use an old GameCube power block, it's 12v 3a. You can pretty much use any power adapter in the 9-12v range with at least .5a per fan.

To start an ATX PSU you need to add a little jumper like this:

atx-connector-20-24pin.jpeg
 
The advice above is right. But as far as wiring the whole thing up.. take the power supply out. It takes up too much room, especially in a tower of that size. You can check out my PC box for an idea or two? I'll post a link for you.
 
alright thanks for all the good feedback guys...but to make sure im understanding,
Riddlem: i connect the green wire from the motherboard choard(the biggest mess of wires) to a single black chord from the motherboard (or all black ones on MB?)...like wired to itself? then that should allow my fans to turn on by just being plugged in on turning it on? sorry if im not understanding hella stoned and super dumb:eyesmoke:
Reelfiles: i dont exactly understand what a jumper is, and where can i get one?
ThinkGreen: im about to go threw your journal right now man thanks for the link:leaf:
 
Dude, don't put a motherboard in there LOL

Just take a wire and strip the insulation off the ends, then insert both ends into the power connector like this:



See the bracket looking thing on the right of the connector, that's where you gotta put the wire, it's black to black not green to black.



Then just hook up your fans to the 4pin molex connectors
 
ReelFiles said:
Dude, don't put a motherboard in there LOL

Just take a wire and strip the insulation off the ends, then insert both ends into the power connector like this:



Then just hook up your fans to the 4pin molex connectors
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alright so i can just cut any black one off the MB chord to use right as the bridge right?
 
ReelFiles said:
You don't have any wires in the house? You can even use a paper clip. What you smokin' over there?
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ahha, smokin G13thai super skunk at the moment...but like i said i know nothing about wiring and electrical...like NOTHING...i just dont wanna get electrocute..but i do have paper clips..imma give it a try and see how it turnes out man thanks again
 
yeaaa man! when those fans started up i was so stoked you dont even know..awsomeness, now all i gotta do is get those light connected to that bitch..any ideas of how i can do that?..i know i see CFLs being used but i dont know what i would need or how i would connect them all to the power suply.
 
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