80mm Computer Case Fan as a Speaker

[jbudik]

IMPOSIBLE!

LOL

[thematthewknot]

Impedance mismatch anyone?

[Films4You]

Otherwise known as a Pop-Music-Fan :)

[Neoplan6o]

You should try this with a delta fan :3

[TheCrazyFinn]

This is great! XD

[D0M1NIX]

wow. this is amazing, let alone fkn hilarious.

[Xeadin101]

I actually don't find this weird at all :) Makes sense on how speakers work

[nikamnavnath15]

nice one dude....

[gregor00005]

cool is it spinning really fast? like 10k RPM? awesome

[stephensoliven]

is the sound coming from the fan?



[TboltHurricane]

Is that possible?

[ypoora1]

Try doing it whit one that has brushed motor. Will sound better çuz you can hear the OTHER half of the waves. Brushed ones do exist,i once did it. A pager motor with a piece of paper works too.

[kbhasikevin]

so u connect the fan directly to a standard headphone plug

or did u add some diodes n things like that?

[Mikej1224]

@kbhasikevin all you do is strip the wires of the fan, connect them to a receiver (amplifier), and then connect that to your source of music.

[GREENG0037]

@kbhasikevin you dont plug it into the headphone plug you hook it up to the speaker jacks on the back of the amp and you dont need diods

[CricketboyStudios]

I'm big FAN of this performer's music! (Really bad pun.)

[Unasigad]

LOL! Which music is the fan 'playing?'

[SaGalv]

yeah i found this out one day, burning up fans and stuff with a powerful fm/am reciever i had in my room. I hooked it up to a hard drive motor and heard the music coming from the music and was so shocked. I had no idea that would actually play music lmao

[ypoora1]

@SaGalv Try the heads.

[Unasigad]

Vantec tornado! Thats a nice fan.

[joshig1983]

This would be great for an April fools prank.

[HDXFH]

Ha I Did this with one, works great with alot of bass

[zinodikudu]

Ooh, a vantec tornado. Those are good fans.

[phazonxl]

Ha! I thought about doing this but I never tried. How does it sound?

[tribalmasters]

HHahaha I like it! Try it with a really loud delta next!

[MultiYippee]

how is ur pc still working if the fan only moves about 1 inch

[workensmart]

how the hell is this working? thats crazy

[TheArea510]

damm that shit slapz

[jessicaburciagishot]

lmao. best bass huh?

[mdmb1]

glue a paper cup or plate to the center of the fan :)

[ST0N3R420X420]

i tried this once but my amp was a bit too strong for it smoked in just a few seconds lol

[Mikej1224]

lol yeah some times if it's a crappy fan it'll do that too.

[ST0N3R420X420]

ya it was a cheap generic fan with bad bearings i wouldnt do this to good fans lol

[Mikej1224]

the one in this video is a pretty good fan, i guess that's why it worked so well. i eventually blew it though.

[ypoora1]

@Mikej1224 Get yourself a 24v BRUSHED fan and pump the bass a bit. sounds GREAT!!!

[XNashty]

haehaehahehaeh genious !!!

[shaolinxdanger]

fan with have a tiny coil and magnet, just like a speaker has a coil and magnet.

only difference is speaker has a cone, much more powerful magnet and higher wattage coil and suspension.

u could probably make a louder sound with a powerful electric motor like one out a lawnmover or hoover.

however without a cone or suspension it won't be louder than a tiny speaker.

[nascarsimracing1]

i didnt know that it really works.

[weedipikia]

oh why don't you sit on it and oscillate!

[vicskyline9]

i might be an idiot, but ... how?

[D3mon5lay3r]

Change the 2 wires of the fans with the 2 wires of a speaker. Done and easy =P

[yewwww]

fan and speaker, what does a speaker do ? produce sound ? but how when its not connected to anything like a stereo or an ipod ? im not being rude im just making you not look stupid

[Glockenator]

you take a stereo and instead of connecting the speaker wire from the stereo to the fan instead of the stereo to the speaker.(i think)

[kami07860]

It is easy, replace fan with speakers. Two wires of fan will go into amplifier

[gruflord]

just hear some Speed metal and im sure that this fan will be faster than ever :P

[f11c8n8]

hey if u can make a big ass one for me and only me (it has to be loud) ill buy it

[DjSprinks890]

Corse!! it would do tht is a magnet and a coil simular concept to the electric part of a speaker! works the same way as some electric buzzers/small speakers (with out moving parts ie the cone) i get ya now man!

Nice one! Lol

[StartswithASeed]

lol

[67CopperHead]

AHAHH

[andythomson1992]

it would work better with a really small fan. it wouldnt need as much power to move it

[tuningysolotuning]

tutorial???

[blob558]

i was thinking of trying that.

[90210lovesme]

When lights that blink to the music isnt enough..

[wdowa94]

1:27 xD

[Zayras7]

lol. nice

[ViewSonicII]

FUСK, it realyy works!!!!!!!!!!!!! Respect to the authour. I couldnt wait for tomorrow and tried it now!!! Coool=))))

[Mikej1224]

nice. what kind of fan did you use?

[ViewSonicII]

Standart. From old PC processor or from PC energy block(same coolers).

[clout1207]

i would have thought the sound is generated through an arc between the coil, check out a tesla speaker. pretty cool.

[lizardmannnn]

lol i gota try that :D

[chrisgxyz]

pretty cool, i gotta try that, is that sound amplified before it goes to the fan?

[themaritimeman]

Yes. On a video a saw about turning a battery-powered electric motor into a speaker, the guy said a 3.5 watt amp was enough. He recommended that it be an old amp that you didn't care about, though.

[IRTEHHAX]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA SOO SEXY! ROFL!! teach me how to do that with a jet engine!!!!

[timothybenton]

this made my day

[Mikej1224]

glad to hear that

[TheDrakenZ]

im confused. A speaker uses magnets to pulsate and displace air creating sound waves but. i dont get it, fans have ballbearings and spin i don't see how it would create noise....half baked to me

[Mikej1224]

sound is just vibrations, and the the fan is vibrating to the information going through the speaker wire.

[TheDrakenZ]

i dont know how it would work but alright lol

[Frangoose]

Its cool, but i don't get how it works.

[Mikej1224]

the fan is connected to speaker wire which is connected to an amplifier which is connected to my computer. i have music playing from my computer, so the fan acts as a speaker.

[mumish13]

try with a dc motor and some transformers with a neon bulb in the secondary.

[Mikej1224]

lol wtf

[paulbreor]

get a car amp for a sub and hook it to your fan on the ceilling

[Mikej1224]

lol well you can't plug a car amp into a home outlet, so idk how you'd do that.

[paulbreor]

you a train set

with a 12v rail

[paulbreor]

park you car at the window

or use a train set with a 12v rail into a car amp the gut your walls and find the fans wire.jk

hey anyways last night i watch this then i did it to one of my old little fans and it melted/smoked

[Mikej1224]

yup that happens, cuz from what i've heard, fans use DC while speaker output is AC. so what happens is the gears in the fan try to move against each other, and they start smoking. you just have to make sure not to put the volume up too high.

[paulbreor]

alright bro

the fan melted because there is copper coils around magnets that are on a alex that moves when north and south magnets reple

and ac current

is alternating current which was invented for

power lines because it can travel father than dc

but you tv computer sound sys of cell phone charger use a transformer to convert ac to dc

and there are no gears in a fan,

the only fans that use ac current plug directly in the wall.

ulike computer fan

they even say DC on 99.99 of them

[Mikej1224]

i know the dif between ac and dc, but yeah idk, that's just the reason some one had told me that the fan started smoking, cuz mine did the same thing. if i have the volume turned up too high, it starts to smoke.

[arhaisme]

make a tutorial

[Mikej1224]

i'm in the process.

[zreiscool]

imagine if you play hard core music that thing will spin so fast!

[Mikej1224]

rap music would be better. bass is what makes it spin.

[SoldierofSorrow]

lol cool

[DrCookieman]

cool how did you do that ???

[Mikej1224]

Well I have my computer connected to my receiver via an RCA to 3.5mm cable. I have speaker wire going from the amp to the the fan. I cut the fan's wires and stripped them so that the speaker wire can connect to the stripped ends of the fan's wires. If I want it to be more like a speaker, then I keep the bass down and treble up, while inversely with bass up, treble down, you get more fan motion, and the fan gives me a breeze to the beat of the bass.