Indeed, lots of electronic shops have 'm ... as well as 2-pins connectors et cetera

If you want to locate a good one in your neighbourhood : www.velleman.be

nice review.

One comment : I would rather put a thick paper or some alu paper between the blade and the PCB. That is much safer than disassembling the fan ( and much quicker :) )

my friend just followed the guide and added an extra cable to my fan (Papst NGM), the connector for on the mobo came from a Coolermaster casefan wich has standard RPM monitoring, but I wanted the Papst because it's more silent.

We followed the guide & the result was that the fan works but Speedfan or my BIOS don't show any RPM.

Any idea what we could have done wrong?

The Author of the article is absent for the moment, he went to the vet ;) , but I'm sure he'll look into it as soon as he returns

same here

on my fanbus, the RPM controller doesn't work even is the fan is running @12V

wire is soldered correctly, but it just doesn't work :/

@Mercenary: which mobo are you using?
i think you've got a "not mentioned case" on your hand here... as said in the article, untill now i have only tested this method on my former MSI ...

@TeuS: which fanbus/fan?

see my fanbus article :)

any kind of fan: coolermaster fan, delta fan, ...

strange... with that antec blue (12v/ground to PSU, RPM to mobo) it worked fine afaik

well - again, i refer to my article ...

didn't try out any other kind of fan either ...

mobo=Epox 8RDA+

I have the same fan (well mine is green actually) and that also works fine.