As a result of our upgrade we get a huge heap of wires, it’s not difficult to count them… Where should we solder these wires to?
We must make a small slot for that purpose.
Let’s start. Cut a card out of a piece of a foil-clad textolite, drill a fixing hole in it and fit it to the opening. The card must be placed properly in such way not to prevent cooler from mounting into the case.
If needed we can manage without this card and without connectors as well… But in such case there will be difficulties with mounting. And the device will look unsightly :) In a word, there should be at least one slot.
We solder 14-pin slot to this card; we can solder any other slot with proper number of contacts, for example slot from LPT :)
Then drill holes for the slot and try it on the cooler.
Then draw lanes; I used nail varnish, but some handymen use other means like laser beam technology or photoresistors. Etch in ferrichloride.
Tin the contacts and solder the slot.
Take a screw, a washer and a screw-nut and fasten the card to the cooler as it is shown in the picture.
Start soldering wires. Not to get mixed up, write down the pins of the slot.
Then bunch the cables; I simply glued them. They turned out to be neat and fine in the result.
After that make the loop with connectors that will pass from the cooler to the control card. Buy a 20-strand loop and corresponding connectors in a shop. I used a mother board with 14 conductors:
Detach 6 strands from 20 and get 2 loops: 14-strand loop and 6-strand loop. At first take the 14-strand loop and crimp it in the slots. ATTENTION!! The slots must be reverse turned in the ends of the loop!
