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With the
fan that you just took out of the power supply,
look for the openings on the top of the plastic
connector head.
If you look inside, there should be
“barbs”: pieces of metal sticking up from
the metal connector that keeps the connector in
place inside of the plastic connector head.
Take a thin slotted screwdriver and stick
it in the opening and depress the barb and pull
out the metal connector.
Do this with the other wire.
The 4-pin fan connector operates under the same
principle.
In this case, you will have to look at
the inside the socket where the four pins are.
Along the side of each of the metal pins,
you will see a small barb, which prevents the
pin from moving out of the socket.
You will now take the slotted screwdriver
once again and depress the barb for the two pins
that are connected to the fan itself.
Now take the wire cutters and cut off the
metal connector from the fan (cut as little wire
off as possible).
You should now only have a fan with two
wires coming out with nothing else attached.
Now you need to bare a quarter inch of
the end of the wire.
The next objective is to get the connectors that
will be used for the 2-pin connector head.
We have two options: the easy way or the
harder, more adventurous way.
The easy way is to buy the connectors,
which should only be a few cents.
You will have to go to an electronics
store. When
I say electronics store, I mean Fry’s, Radio
Shack or any place that sells IC’s, not a
specialized computer store like Best Buy or
CompUSA. This
will make your life easier because you will not
have to salvage the old connectors.
But I feel like showing the adventurous
types the engineering way: winging it with what
you have. So
those that buy the connectors, skip the next
page. So
with that said, let us proceed.
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