Biocube Light Fan upgrade

So I am on the battle of keeping my tank cool and I know the biggest reason for heat in my tank is my lights. I really want to upgrade to the LED lights but with a price tag of $250 to $300 it is a little more than I can afford right now. So I started to look on the net and there is not really to much that I can find on upgrades on biocube fans. Then I got on Google and put in 50mm case fan and I found this on newegg ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product ) It is a perfect mach to the stock fan ( 50mm X 50mm X 10mm ). The only thing bad is that it is a 3 wire and the biocube has 2. So I think I can leave one of the wires out or split it in with the other one all I think the 3 wire is a on off switch or a speed switch. I will order the fans next week when I get paid unless some one thinks its a bad idea to do it.

 

Biocube 29 PC to LED conversion This is a DIY. You won't need 19 Crees. Even using 19 Crees (think $7 a bulb, roughly) and two drivers ($40 each) I kept it right around $200. I've noticed no issues what-so-ever with heat from the LEDs. Even the fans blow cool air out of the hood after they've been on all day. You could get away with a lot less LEDs if you don't want to keep high light requiring organisms.

Otherwise, there are a host of fans you can swap in, but I believe you're going to run into the wire problem with most all of them. IIRC there is a "conversion plug" or something like that. I'd just check and see which wires do what (maybe there's a ground wire or something as the third wire of the fans).

 

Thats what i was thinking about the wires one is a hot and one ground

 

If there are two, I would suspect one is an "in" and the other is an "out" for the hot. For the three, add a ground in. Do you have access to the fan? If so, see if it's marked. Or, get a small driver and run it to see which way it works.

 

no i am going to get them ordered soon and i did find a conversion plug that goes from 3 pin to a 2 pin