Posts by Maginos

Ok, I will ask in the forum of friendlyarm and report back.

Btw I have now all parts, everything is fitting, execpt the four bars for the fan, they are too thick and I have to make them smaller.

Hi Kirdis, the last part of the case is in printing, I hope to get all parts tomorrow and that I can put everything together tomorrow evening.

I've got one last question: How do you control the fan? I found this on the internet:

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/11086-pwm-fan-on-nanopi-m4/

and this:

https://forum.armbian.com/topi…ab=comments#comment-92709

I did everything as the people there suggested, but the fan doesn't spin. The service "fancontrol" is active and running btw. How did you do that? The latest temperature of the NanoPi M4V2 is 48 °C.

Thank you for your help!

Thank you.

Ah ok. Quite a long distance then, if you PASS Erlangen.
Thank you, I hope, that we don't run into any more issues.

Today I bought the NONOIse G5015S12D DC12V 0.080A on ebay, so yes, I have a 12 V fan.

I assume you mean the two pins left of the 4-pin 12 V input connector on the SATA hat (which are labelled as "Fan" on the homepage of friendlyelec), right? So I just have to plug the fan there? That would be easy.

Yes, I'm from Germany, actually my second home is Erlangen.

Thank you for your response.

ah ok, now I understand. I thougt, you had to modify the plug connector of the fan, but if I see correctly, you can plug it in as it is, right? Or did you modify the cables of the fan with resistors?

Ok, this will be a bit difficult, because I'm not printing the parts by myself, and I don't know, if my friend has two SSDs left to test it. But I think, that there will be no problem, since SSDs are lower in height and and the holes for the screws should be in the exact same position.
Yes, the low power consumption is actually a very nice side effect of this small project, which got now the highly important task to store and restore my backup of my Weather Station Raspberry Pi.
If the case is looking nicely, I will post some pictures, I promise. The first part is already printed and we already ran into the first problem. The four sticks for the fan were not printed properly, so he added a supporting structure (Stützstruktur) and we have to get the four sticks out of it by hand. Let's see, how this will work. He also said, that this is a problem of the printer, that it has some problems at specific tasks, so I don't blame your template for this.

Unfortunately, he's not at home right now and will return in 2-3 weeks, so this project will take some time. And I have to get the fan first, before I can assemble it.

cheers
Maginos

Hi Kirkdis,

since your case is exactly what I'm searching for, I would also like to use it. I have only two questions on it:

I assume it's working, but can I use the case with 2,5 " SSDs? From the pictures I would say yes, but just to be sure...

Where can I find informations about your fan setup? Stramm wrote something about resistors, but I didn't find any information about that. Maybe I overlooked something, but can you please say something more in detail how to setup the fan? Thank you very much.

Maginos

Thank you hxqnet for your post, I HAD the same problem like you.

Thank you Adoby for the tip with the firmware update. After updating the firmware (with setting the spindown timer to -t 0 of course) followed by a reboot, my WD Red 2 TB in the HC2 keeps spinning all the time. I didn't test the APM, noise and spindown settings in OMV, because I like the HDD to spin 24/7.

FYI: The start_stop_count of my WD Red increased by ca. 100 today and I was not at home, so I'm happy that I was able to fix this with the firmware update.