Not so long ago I had a hideous noise coming from a cooling case fan on one of my PC’s. It was powered by the usual 4 wire (Y 2xBk R) cable but used an in-line splitter which also powered the WD20 hard drive. Rather than go to menial effort of getting my daughter to get off the PC, I “hot” disconnec…

Surprised there wasn’t any response from the boffins here-in, nevertheless, for anyone ending up in this thread because of the same probelm. The result was this. Installed the PCB as-is from Hong Kong onto my hard drive and it started spinning (this essentially confirmed the TVS Diode on the donor…

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DavidSucesso August 20, 2014, 1:58am 7

You did right… it seems stable