Lamptron FC9 Fan Controller Review

Posted by Gilgamesh on October 31st, 2011

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Installation

Installation was a breeze, however before installing the Lamptron fc/9 into your computer it may be worthwhile choosing your colour first. The reason for this is that the colour changing LED’S (which are of course the RGB variety) need to be selected via three jumper switches, which can be seen on the upper left of the image below.

There are seven colours to choose from, which should be enough to fit in with any case theme. They are as follows:

White
Blue
Teal
Purple
Red
Green
Yellow

However, it must be noted that though there are seven colours available the LED’s are of a RGB Variety and as such only the three main colours are really shown. The White looks a little like Teal and the Yellow looks more like a green. However the main colours are correctly and brightly shown as displayed below. We have photographed five of the best colours and these are:

Teal
Blue
Purple
Red
Green

Once the colour was set then installation was a breeze, simply install the Lamptron FC/9 into the computer then tighten up the screws and connect power to all three of the Molex Connectors. It must be noted that the consumer can switch off the side lighting effects by removing a jumper switch from the upper right of the product.

At fifty watts per channel we should be able to add our water cooling pumps to the controller plus cold cathode inverters, other LED’s and our fans for the build. So that is what we did. The wiring was very messy and ad-hoc due to having to make our own custom cables in order to connect to the controller.

We connected the fan Controller up to these items:

Wired three 18watt Liang DDC Pumps onto one channel (channel four)
Connected Two cold cathode Inverters Plus five 120mm and two 80mm fans
Nothing on channel two as of yet
FIVE 140MM Alphreon Fans, 120mm and and Four RED LED’s for the feet.

Below shows the rather messy wiring for the testing only

Whilst not at full capacity it does however support more devices and fans than any other fan controller available on the market today. Below are a series of images of the humongous machine that the FC9 was installed upon.