The fan for my lil brother's PS2 does not spin. I opened up the PS2, took out the fan and the fan isn't broken. I spins smoothly when you push it with your finger but it is not getting any electricity. It turns out that one of the wires is completely flat - paper thin. So, I'm thinking that it basically isn't getting any electricity because of the wire being flat and thus the metal inside is not making contact. I can cut out the wire where it is flattened and just reconnect it back and that might fix it. But I was wondering if I can put in a better fan, a 12volt 60mm fan instead of the stock 7volt fan, just for fun and to keep it cool because this PS2 hasn't been opened for over a year and there was a ton of dust built up in there. So, if I want to do that, where on the PS2 might I find a 12volt positive line to solder the wire to? **Edit** I found out that divineo.com sells PS2 fans. But I'm still wondering if there is a 12volt line so that I can put on a regular 60mm PC case fan... So, if any of you PS2 modders know if it does, let me know and point it out to me, please... Thanks.
I thought there was a 12v DC draw off of one of those 4 pins for the power supply, but i'm not sure... I'll go after it with a multimeter later tonight. I have a retail unit i have to crack open anyway...
Exactly right. I did exactly this with a housemate's PS2 - the fan controller was fried so even though the fan worked perfectly it would never spin (and the unit overheated every half hour or so). I wasn't in the mood for an indepth fix so I just attached it to the 12V supply from the PSU board (where that 4-pin connector attaches to the logic board). Only two problems with this: - The fan controller normally provides a lower voltage (5V?) so now the damn thing sounds like it can VTOL. I dunno what shitty bearings they used in the fans but it's seriously loud. - The PSU always produces 12V, and it's up the logic board to turn everything on and off via the standby button. So, once you've plugged it in the fan spins at extreme speed even if the unit's in standby. Since I couldn't be bothered either to poke around for 5V on the logic board (which would be a pain because the PSU can't connect to it easily except with the case on...) or to extend the fan's wires this worked fine for me - when you've finished with the PS2 you just have to turn it off at the back. A rather gruesome hack but one that works acceptably well :icon_bigg Oh, and I gave myself a fairly hefty jolt off one of the PSU's capacitors when I was putting it back together. Bastard thing. Stone
Eh, crap... my meter's battery is dead... stupid little watch battery... anyway, you should check which pin is is 12v yourself so the drawing doesn't get flipped somehow.
It only took a minute to figure it out, anyway. From what I recall, two pins are 12V and two are grounded, but I could be wrong... [hint: the 0V line is at one end of the connector, and attached to the massive ground plane on the PCB ] Stone
The fan the PS2 comes with is a 7volt fan, thats why its that loud when you attached it to the 12vlt line. They are getting a new PS2 and down the road I'm going to buy a fan so that I'll finally have my own PS2.
