Sometimes I think you young people are just making this shit up. Not that I didn’t laugh.

Thanks! Yeah, I’ll leave it at that now and just enjoy that it works. I’ve recently been studying the very basics just out of curiosity, but when they started to talk about earth being a giant sink for electrons, they lost me (for now). I’ll definitely pick it up again next month. 😊

I second this. If you can deal with those microconnections to an NTP server, search for how to enable NTP. On a systemd Linux system it should be a timedatectl option, I think.

Quantum partner.

I just found a “noise reduction cable” from Noctua. It ads 51 Ohms. I have no idea how to calculate what the new voltage would be on a 12V 2A DC power supply ( https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nv-ps1/specifications ), but Noctua’s website says that the cable lowers fan speeds, so I’ll give it a try.

I guess I have to try. It either stalls and doesn’t turn at all, or I get a comfortable breeze.

Bookmarked!

Thanks! That lead me to discover this: https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nv-ps1/specifications Which I guess would have the fan blast away at full speed, but maybe I could force a potentiometer in between somewhere somehow…?

Or, I just go the easy way, as you said. I just hate to know that the Wraith is sitting in my closet, unused… XD

Right! I have no reason for it to run art full speed on a Pi anyway. I’m leaning towards buying a 5V USB adapter.

5V seems to the consensus, so I’ll go in that direction. But I do want to keep the chassi on, so I think I’ll go with a 5V USB.

I had no idea the Pi’s output could be boosted. Sweet!

Right, so less voltage, less speed. Couldn’t I “shove” a potentiometer in between and give it around 7,5V or whatever gives the best noise to temp results?

Gotcha! Thanks for the directions! Any reason why I shouldn’t power it with 12V, since it says 12 on the fan…?

Thanks, I thought of that too, and I’ll go with that if this doesn’t work. I just didn’t want this little Wraith lying around unused and the size fits so well on the Pi 😄

Nice! I was just going to ask if I should add in a potentiometer to regulate the fan speed. But you say it should be a transistor? I’m a complete noob at hardware, so please excuse any inaccurate lingo. 😅

What rabbit hole have you lead me down… Now I can’t stop reading about BSD.

“Unfuck into workable state” is gold. Hope it’s open licensed. 🙏

Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge

Haven’t checked my low level sound drivers in a long time - I’m using pipewire and wireplumber to control it all. Is ALSA still there at the bottom/as a dependency? Arch btw.