Hello,
as part of a project to replace a cooling fan with something less noisy, I began to check what kind of driving is applied to it.
This is the situation when the 12V fan is driven at full speed:
The yellow trace is the fan drive: above the average 12V drive there are periodic narrow 16V pulses.
Those pulses are always synchronous with the signal coming from the fan sense pin (blue trace).
I tried to 'hand brake' the fan to make it spin it slower and not only the period of the blue trace got longer (as expected), but the yellow pulses kept being synchronous with the edges of the sense signal.
As amplitude, when the fan is driven at reduced speed (i.e. about 9V) the voltage peaks are still reaching 16V.
Question is: where do those narrow pulses come from? What their cause or their purpose?
Thanks.
BTW: the snapshot was taken with RigolBildschirmkopie via LAN