Don't buy battery packs off amazon. Go into Radio Shack and talk to a person and he will find you a battery pack that will suit you best. They will also find your wire that you need and a soldering kit if you don't have one.
From the very little I know which my expert friend taught me, I recently wired a fan myself with my last mask and found it easier than I thought
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Personally I wouldn't use AAs; you need 3 of them for a 5V fan, or 8 for a 12V fan; that's quite a lot of weight. There are really lightweight LiPo battery packs for 12V that will last a very long time powering just a fan. If you do use AAs, be sure to remove them as soon as you're done suiting, and never leave them stored inside the head. They leak very easily, and you really don't want to ruin your head that way.
Ohhhhh. So 8 AA's compares to using 1 9v battery? Would a 9 volt be likely to leak also? ^_^ Edit: Uh... I see that 1 AA is 1.5v and 1 9v is 9v XD lols i'm still learning.
A regular 9V block is just as likely to leak as an AA, yes.
It's possible to run a 12V fan on 9V (as low as 5 to 6 V might even work), but it will lose a lot of it's power. And also produce less noise - find a combination that works best for your situation. As long as you wire them serially (positive to negative pole), you can just add up the voltages of regular batteries.
A non-rechargeable AA battery is 1.5V, but a rechargeable is 1.2V. Something to bear in mind that multiple batteries may not give you the desired voltage.
You need 10xAA rechargeables to make the same voltage as 8xAA non-rechargeables.
The same goes for 9V batteries, where the rechargeable is a multiple cell version of a 1.2V battery so it can only provide 8.4V.
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How to solder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLfXXRfRIzY
I used this tutorial here to learn how to wire LED. Once you understand the concept of wiring the concept of a fan will be easy to understand.
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holy crap you need one of these I promise
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Don't buy battery packs off amazon. Go into Radio Shack and talk to a person and he will find you a battery pack that will suit you best. They will also find your wire that you need and a soldering kit if you don't have one.
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ty for info!
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If you do use AAs, be sure to remove them as soon as you're done suiting, and never leave them stored inside the head. They leak very easily, and you really don't want to ruin your head that way.
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Edit: Uh... I see that 1 AA is 1.5v and 1 9v is 9v XD lols i'm still learning.
*bows* Thank you!
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It's possible to run a 12V fan on 9V (as low as 5 to 6 V might even work), but it will lose a lot of it's power. And also produce less noise - find a combination that works best for your situation.
As long as you wire them serially (positive to negative pole), you can just add up the voltages of regular batteries.
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You need 10xAA rechargeables to make the same voltage as 8xAA non-rechargeables.
The same goes for 9V batteries, where the rechargeable is a multiple cell version of a 1.2V battery so it can only provide 8.4V.
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