/challenges-projects/design-challenges/in-the-air-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/aircare-intheair---week-16-bis-fan-control-with-msp430fr5969Previous posts for this project: [AirCare] InTheAir - Project Description [AirCare] InTheAir - Week 1: Getting a Launchpad to Blink [AirCare] InTheAir - Week 2: Preparing the Beaglebone Black [AirCare] InTheAir - Week 3: Fuel Tank Testing [AirCare] InTheAen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/in-the-air-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/aircare-intheair---week-16-bis-fan-control-with-msp430fr5969Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:35:37 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:8f4d7ab9-3f69-482f-af64-e003b83d3ad6mcb11<p>Frederick</p><p>Nice to see failures in original plans ... and the alternative.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This guy &#39;cheated&#39; and used the original remote.</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.penguintutor.com/electronics/simple-homeautomation-raspberrypi" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.penguintutor.com/electronics/simple-homeautomation-raspberrypi">http://www.penguintutor.com/electronics/simple-homeautomation-raspberrypi</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Mark</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=19901&AppID=102&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/in-the-air-design-challenge/b/blog/posts/aircare-intheair---week-16-bis-fan-control-with-msp430fr5969Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:18:18 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:8f4d7ab9-3f69-482f-af64-e003b83d3ad6ipv10<p>Dunno if this is useful but if you are trying to control the speed of a fan you might consider looking up scr based ac motor control. The concept is similar to pwm but uses an scr to cut part of the AC voltage to lower motor speeds <span>[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-8f4d7ab9-3f69-482f-af64-e003b83d3ad6/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]</span></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=19901&AppID=102&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">