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Available in two designs, Hummer and Military stylings, you can tell that the Fan-Atic has a very ruggid design to it. The metal faceplate is entire CNC Milled from solid steel. My initial impressions of handling the device proved to back up this thought. It's heavy; and it's certainly designed to take a beating. Lamptron chose a five channel design for this baybus, offering one more channel than the average baybus provides. All channel switching is done with a ridgid toggle switch. The middle position is off, down provides the full 12 Volts to the channel and up provides 7 Volts to the channel. The LED lighting action comes into play when the device is on and will illuminate that channel blue when 12 Volts is selected and red when 7 Volts is selected. No lighting is in effect when the channel is off. I still find myself questioning why it wasn't the other way around, to me it seems like 12V should be up and 7V should be down.

Switching around to the back, we can see that power is provided via a standard molex connector. Lamptron includes a short molex extension cable which is helpful for installing it into some cases where reaching the front of a bay can be a tricky process. The connectors used for each channel are just the typical 3-pin fan connectors. Lamptron does not include any adapters for if you wish to plug a molex-powered device into any of these channels. As I mentioned earlier, since each channel can handle over 60W you aren't limited to just one device per channel. To put this into a relation that most will understand; most computer fans use well under 10W a piece. So that could be upwards of 10 fans PER channel. You can also connect lighting kits to this device as well, but make sure you check out all of the power requirements first! If you start loading up the channels and not keeping track of the total wattage you could possibly damage something.

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