Timeline for Adding 5V fan to GPIO 2 and 6
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| Jan 16, 2015 at 22:14 | answer | added | motionpotion | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 6, 2013 at 11:44 | comment | added | Daniel W. | thank you all for your answers... I through I'd be able to just put on a fan and switch it on of and stuff. | |
| Aug 6, 2013 at 11:44 | vote | accept | Daniel W. | ||
| Aug 6, 2013 at 11:29 | answer | added | Matthew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 18:25 | comment | added | Tevo D | GPIO are unlikely to be able to provide sufficient current to run the fan without additional electronics added. | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 18:03 | answer | added | SF. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 18:03 | answer | added | PiBorg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 17:59 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 5, 2013 at 17:53 | comment | added | Daniel W. | @MarcoPoli my fav solution would be to let the fan activate when a certain heat is reached | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 17:45 | comment | added | Marco Poli | Please tell us a little more. Why do you want to use GPIOs? Will the fan be always-on? Or do you want to be able to turn it on/off on software? Pins 2 and 6 and neither INPUT nor OUTPUT, they are connected to the power supply. As such they are not controlled by /sys/class/gpio, nor are they considered GPIO pins. They are just in the same connector. If you connect a fan to that pins it will work, but you have power limitations. You should check the diagram and make sure nothing wrong happens if you draw too much power (I haven't yet). | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 17:41 | history | asked | Daniel W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |