I needed to adapt a computer fan to a wall plug so i could use it in an egg incubator.
Connect pc fan to ac adapter.
This is an easy thing to do and should only take about a minute to hook up.
At half an amp per fan you could hook up 24 fans in parallel.
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You can t just feed a dc motor ac.
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A transformer will not give you dc.
Connect your black pc axial wires to the adapters black wire.
It will give you ac.
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Connect your red pc axial wires to the adapters white wire.
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Take the two wires from the ac adapter it will not hurt it becasue it is now converted to 12v dc and just try combinations with the four wires until the fan works.
Take the red wire from the fan strip it a little and stick it in the hole of the adapter plug.
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What you need is called an ac to dc inverter.
The other wires on the fan are for control and aren t needed for your purpose.
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Tape the black wire to the outside of the plug with electrical tape.