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Auto Fan Control on Universal Amplifier Control Board

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i have a problem with a Universal Amplifier Control Board auto Fan output control, here is the issue :i set the temperature alarm at 60C and the auto fan trigger at 30C , but the fan never turn on, i repeated the procedure again set the alarm at 60C , then set the fan to always on , the fan did not activate , i tried several times at different temperature it never work . what is the issued here?

when connected to the regular fan output the fans worked fine.
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Its possible the fet that turns the fan on/off died. Its the cheap and generally available
type, BS170 or 2N7000, do you have any of these two at hand?

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i can get them..
thanks alot.
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Maybe you made a short across the fan pins? :P
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nope. it just stop working before i got there.
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That's not good than. We'll place a stronger fet there.

So you were able to fix it I suppose?

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