The Fan is compatible with Vilros Fan cases and features an additional Wire to be able to program the fan to turn on/off at certain temps.
Connect the Fan to the board by connecting the 2-pin header with red cable to Pin 4 (5v) and The Black Cable to Pin 6 (GND)
Once you have connected your fan, the fan will run whenever your Raspberry Pi has power.
If you would like to configure the fan to turn on/off via the RP OS setting then connect the Blue Cable to Pin 8 (GPIO 14).
You can choose to configure it to turn on only when your Raspberry Pi reaches a temperature that you choose by following the steps below:
- Update to the latest RP OS (see instructions here)
- Once updated open the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool by Clicking on the Raspberry Pi icon in the top left corner and select Preferences then Raspberry Pi Configuration.
- Select the Performance tab.
- Next to Fan, click Enabled.
- If you have connected your fan as described above, the default of 14 for Fan GPIO does not need to be changed.
- Select the Fan Temperature at which you want your fan to turn on. The default is 80°C, which will stop the Raspberry Pi throttling on difficult tasks without having the fan on all the time.
See more info from the foundation in regards to fan setup here.
