Lamptron Fan Controller FC5V2 Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2011-06-14

The FC5V2 fan controller comes with an improved LCD screen compared to the previous version, has the unique feature of being able to change the screen colour to one of the 7 available choices and provides more than enough power for each of the four channels (up to 30W).

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A Closer Look Part III

By making combinations with the B(blue), G(green), R(red) jumpers, we can obtain different colors on the display:

 

 

 

The MOLEX connector can be found in the top right corner of the PCB:

 

 

 

In the middle, we can find the alarm buzzer; the alarm is turned on in case one of the recorded temperature passes over 70 degrees Celsius or when one of the fans does not rotate when powered by a voltage higher than 6.5V:

 

 

 

Here are the different colors that we can obtained by playing with the jumpers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If we modify the position of the “Select” jumpers, we can tell the controller to display the temperature in Celsius instead of the voltage:

 

 

 

When a probe is connected, the controller will display right away the respective temperature:

 

 

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