Vu Duo Clone Fan problem

[les53]

Hi. I have Vu+ duo clone with fan stopping / failing to start. manually helping it to spin will make it run for a while. With fan unplugged, motherboard socket has 12VDC. With fan plugged in that voltage drops to 2.4VDC which is a bit low to keep a 12V fan spinning. Tried other samples of 12V fan, no better, some worse. I suspect a motherboard resistor is in series as a primitive noise reduction feature. Is it best to short the resistor, or replace with lower value? Thanks, Les.

[IAmATeaf]

I replace the current 220ohm with a 100ohm as shown in the diagram. But first check that that the resistor you have in your box is 220ohm.

[pongo snodgrass]

I replace the current 220ohm with a 100ohm as shown in the diagram. But first check that that the resistor you have in your box is 220ohm.

i have this problem with the fractal fan i replaced....cant even see the resistor let alone remove it..

[dmdigi]

Installed black hole image 1.7.3 and the fan is not working but when I installed Vix 2.3 prior to the 3.11 kernal it worked fine.

I opened up the receiver and the fan connection is ok.

Any ideas?

I know this thread is a year old.
This could well be caused by kernal 3.1.1.

I have been having this problem since upgrading to kernal 3.1.1 as well on my Original Duo.

[pacha2]

I seem to be having the same issue too.
Fan runs fine for a while and then it seems to stop in Standby and doesn't start after a reboot either.
That soldering photo looks very tricky.

I was thinking of adding another fan but not sure how/what is best to do here?

I'm running ViX 3.0.767