HOW TO Install Corsair RGB Fans with Lighting Node Core (10+ Fans)

hey everybody a little while back i posted a video of some b-roll footage of my new pc build i got a ton of questions asking me exactly how i wired up all 10 of those fans in there so i went ahead i made a quick video showing you guys exactly how i did that so let's just jump right into it okay so here's all the main components that we're going to need for this build we have four of our 10 fans taken out just to show you how they get wired up we have our commander pro two lighting node cores as well as two two-way fan splitters so these fan splitters are used just to control power of two fans on one power port so to go a little bit more in detail on what each of these parts do here's your commander pro your commander pro has six fan ports so each port will control the speed of your fans we have two led ports for say led strips then we have two usb ports which is what we're going to use to control our two lighting node cores which will then control your rgb and we have four temperature sensors in here next we have our lighting node core each of these are going to have six ports on them for rgb power this will then plug into we have a usb connection on here the usb will connect into our commander pro and we have a sata connection here for power so we have two of these in order to connect up to 12 fans now we have our fan splitters and what these fan splitters are going to do is we're going to plug each of these into two of our power slots on the commander pro and now instead of having six ports we now have seven add another one and now we have eight slots so you can do this for each of these slots and get all the way up to 12 fans powered off of one commander pro okay now just before we get into wiring this up it's important to note that each of these three pack of ql 120s will come with a lighting node core so if you buy two of these three packs and have six fans you will have two of these lighting node cores which can power the rgb of up to 12 fans so you'll have more than enough rgb control okay so now let's just jump right into it we're gonna first have to wire up the power to our commander pro so your commander pro is going to have a sata connection then we're going to want to give power to our lighting node course and our other lighting node core okay so now that all three of these have power the next step we're going to take is going to be to plug in the usb connector from each of our lighting node cores into our commander pro okay so now that our lighting node cores are plugged into our commander pro what we're going to want to first do with our fans is going to be the power so each fan has rgb as well as actual fan power so first thing we're gonna do is give the fan power so it can spin each fan will get plugged into one of these six slots for fan power plug it into slot one you can see it'll spin now it doesn't matter which slots that you plug each fan into they can be out of order so you can do one and six they'll both still spin doesn't really matter and then what we're going to do with these fan splitters is we're going to add a fan splitter into one of these spots and now we have two two connectors on here for fan power and what we will do is connect these last two up using these one two so you can kind of see how that's gonna work out we're gonna have four of our fans individually connected to our commander pro and then four of our fans connected using the fan splitters and as you can see this is kind of already turning into a wiring mess let me clean this up and we'll be right back okay so what we have now i've hooked up eight of the fans to our commander pro so we have a fan splitter here so two of our fans are connected on our port one two of our fans are connected on port two and the last four fans are connected individually on ports three through six so that's eight of our fans powered up the last two are going to be our two on our cpu cooler radiator they're actually going to get plugged directly in to your cpu cooler or if you wanted to you could add two more fan splitters here and get all 10 hooked up to the commander pro so now that you have all 10 of your fans have power eight of them are getting powered off our commander pro and two of them are getting power off the cpu cooler itself again you could add more fan splitters as needed if you wanted to run these two fans off your commander pro as well aside from that the next thing we're going to work on is going to be our rgb connections so each fan has an rgb connector our lighting node core has six connectors for rgb so we're going to plug each of these fans into our landing node core one thing to note here is that you you got to make sure you go in the right order so there's a one two three four five six so if we plug this second fan into slot two it will light up however these are all daisy chained together so if we plug into slot three because two is missing it won't light up slot three so make sure you go in order here it'll also make doing any color coordination easier if each fan is in sequential order watching so now all 10 have rgb all 10 are spinning so again just to quickly go over everything again we have power coming off our commander pro we have six slots on here so technically you could power up six fans in order to get more than six fans on here you have to use a fan splitter so therefore two fans can get powered off of one header one thing to note with that is gonna be that whatever speed you're running the one fan at they're both going to run at the same speed whereas here you can adjust the speed if you have a single fan on here you can have every fan running at a different speed anywhere we're using a fan splitter any fans connecting out here going to run at the same exact speed so just keep that in mind so we have six fans plus two splitters that gets us eight fans two of our fans are connected to our cpu cooler so there's all your power next we have our rgb so we have two lighting note cores each of these are plugged into our commander pro via usb and our commander pro is plugged into our motherboard via usb all three of these components are getting power via sata and then our fan rgb is going to connect to our two lighting node cores okay so here's one more way to look at everything kind of a different view so we have our commander pro we have our lighting node core a second lighting node core and our 10 fans so the first thing you want to do is plug your commander pro into your motherboard and get power to your commander pro next thing you want to do is plug your two lighting node cores into the two usb ports on the commander pro and get them power as well so the next thing we're going to do is work on getting power to our fans so the first thing you want to do is grab your fan splitter power up two fans get plugged into your fan splitter and then your one connection goes into your commander pro this way you're powering up two fans with one port you do the same thing for another two fans so now you have four fans powered up only using two ports and we have four slots left over we're gonna wire up one two three four fans to those four additional slots and our last two fans on my setup are getting powered via the cpu cooler alternatively we could also just add two more fan splitters and power up all 10 fans directly from the commander pro now we'll look at the led setup so we're going to go back to my initial setup that i currently have your first fan will get wired up to the lighting node core slot one your second fan will get wired up to slot two slot three slot four slot five slot six and then we'll go to the seventh band we'll get put on to slot one of lighting node core two eth1 on slot 2 9th one on slot 3 and your 10th one on slot 4. so all 10 of your fans for rgb will go into your lighting node course your lighting node cores will get plugged into your commander pro eight of your fans or if you add two more fan splitters all 10 of your fans will get powered off the commander pro but in my setup it's going to be eight fans get powered off the commander pro two fans get powered up via the cpu cooler okay so now everything's wired back together 10 fans are in all of our wires are run show you a picture of the cable management it's a little tricky that okay so now we're going to take a quick look at the iq software i'm just going to voice over this section here so we have all of our corsair products if we click on our lighting node core you can see we have our four fans on one we have our other six fans on the other unit if we click on the commander pro you'll see we can see the fan speed of all six ports and we'll be able to adjust these speeds you can adjust the profile curve there's a var various different options within here of how fast you can make the fan spin you can play around with what speeds make the least amount of noise you can change your speed profiles on here and you can play around with this i tend to just leave mine on balance or quiet so now we're gonna go to the lighting section we'll go back to one of our cores on lighting link if you click on any of these it'll change both of your core so the four fans on this unit and the six fans on the other one all the same time and they'll all link together as well as the corsair logo on the cooler on the cpu cooler there's a number of different patterns they have on here you can change the speeds you can change the color profiles of each of them make them go faster or slower and so on so this is just me playing around with them a little bit so we'll fast forward to the rest here until something else pops up so fast let me click around here for a while so here's something else you can see on iq you get all of your temperature readouts for your cpu your gpu there's a couple other things you can get on your dashboard there you have instant lighting at the top you just want to quickly change the color of all your leds and then as you can see here you can change each individual led on every fan so you see you have your outer leds and your inner leds and you can adjust each one whatever color you want so hopefully this cleared up any questions anyone had but if not feel free to comment below if you have any other questions leave a comment as well otherwise have a good one you

Channel: Dave Done Did It

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Keywords: corsair, how to, wire, ql120, ll120, rgb, commander, pro, lighting, node, core, lian, li, pc, build, 2020, easy, 10, 12, diy, custom, aio, asus, gaming

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Length: 13min 27sec (807 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 31 2020