 Slick and I want to do subjective readings of some fans at 7 volts versus at 12 volts in terms of how they sound. And we discovered that we don't have a single 12 to 7 volt resistor in the entire Tech Tip studio so because the rest of the office is closed off right now, I'm forced to make myself a ghetto one. I mean this is one of those never ever do this but I'm going to show you how to do it anyway just in case you ever have to. Kind of things. So basically you've got a standard 4 pin to 3 pin adapter. Oh is this even going to be able to plug into all the fans? I guess we'll have to, well all you've got to do is just cut away the casing. Anyway, standard 4 pin Molex peripheral connector to 3 pin. So the way that voltage is derived is from a difference. So yellow carries 12 volt, black carries ground. So that will deliver 12 volts to the fan. However if I take, okay so a way to deliver 5 volts to the fan would be to hook the fan up to this and this or this and this. So this carries 5 volts, this carries 12, these carry ground. However if I want to deliver 7 volts to the fan I can hook the 12 volt up to the 5 volt and that will be a difference of 7 volts. So I'm going to show you guys how to do this. Never ever do this of course. And most importantly, once you plug this in, never plug like a hard drive or anything into this because it will be miswired now because I've changed these around. So all you've got to do, if you guys have ever de-pinned a Molex before then you'll know how to do this but you just kind of grab it. It's better to have better tools but I don't happen to have my tools with me because we're trying to do something here and we don't have a whole lot of time so. There we go. Apparently the battery is running out on the camera too so I'll just work on this while Slick goes and changes the battery and then we'll be good to go. So all you do is bend the pins in with a needle a little bit. So you bend those two tabs on either side of the pins so I'm just going to do this one really quick here. I just need to see where they are. Yeah with the camera there it's pretty hard to see what I'm doing but it's okay, it's all good. There we go. Okay so you pull that out. Once you pull it out you then bend the tabs back out so that they'll hook back in once you put them back in. See how they're flared now? And then the one that I bent in is not flared anymore so you just go ahead and stick that in there and sort of try to. My needle is really dull now because I've used it for this one awful lot. There you go. Flare that out. Flare that out. So yeah once again like if you ever make yourself an adapter like this I have one at home that I made. What I did was I wrapped it up like this and then I wrote on here 7V fan adapter, do not plug and then if you're really smart you might cover this with something so you never accidentally plug something in. So basically I'm going to take this and throw it in there, take this and throw it in there and now I have made myself, see how I have this now going to what is essentially 12 volt and 5 volt, I have made myself a 7 volt fan adapter which you should never do.