Sunbeam Rheobus Review

[Capper]

Jonathan takes us on a tour of Sunbeam's Rheobus....or fan controller for you hillbillies

Sunbeam Rheobus Review
http://hardwarelogic.com/news/118/AR...006-03-17.html

[gvblake22]

Nice. I have the rheobus (also in silver) and it works awesome. It's really nice to be able to turn the fans off, something that most fan controllers on the market today cannot do. The whole thing is very high quality and well built/designed. I agree that the LED's are very bright. I did find THIS GUIDE that outlines how to add a resistor to the LED's in order to make them dimmer. You could also just snip them right out if you wanted to. I've also seen people change them out completely for different colors and stuff.
You can also use sandpaper and sand off the painted logos and designs on the front if you wanted to.

The only thing I want to caution people to is the fact that you can turn the fan completely off with this. I mention this because if you were to hook up a CPU or video card heatsink fan to the rheobus, it is possible for you (or someone else) to accidentally turn it completely off and you risk the chance of that component overheating and getting destroyed. Just keep track of what you are hooking it up to and keep the knobs out of reach of unsuspecting wandering hands that might want to play with the knobs and pretty colors...

[Tyreal]

Thanks Blake for pointing that out. You can't stress that enough, you really don't want to connect your cpu fan to it. Its just not a good idea.

[gwhea38411]

Nice link and review, overall sweet Bling. Nice point Blake.

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Nice. I have the rheobus (also in silver) and it works awesome. It's really nice to be able to turn the fans off, something that most fan controllers on the market today cannot do. The whole thing is very high quality and well built/designed. I agree that the LED's are very bright. I did find THIS GUIDE that outlines how to add a resistor to the LED's in order to make them dimmer. You could also just snip them right out if you wanted to. I've also seen people change them out completely for different colors and stuff.
You can also use sandpaper and sand off the painted logos and designs on the front if you wanted to.

The only thing I want to caution people to is the fact that you can turn the fan completely off with this. I mention this because if you were to hook up a CPU or video card heatsink fan to the rheobus, it is possible for you (or someone else) to accidentally turn it completely off and you risk the chance of that component overheating and getting destroyed. Just keep track of what you are hooking it up to and keep the knobs out of reach of unsuspecting wandering hands that might want to play with the knobs and pretty colors...

I thats why I cant get t this my 4 year old would be owwwwwwwww pretty knob lets turn it. Of corse it would get turned to the left. LOL

[Tyreal]

Hahahahaha.

Also, i discovered that you can actually mount the rheobus backwards so the knobs are inside the case. You can simply put the drive plate back on so know one notices it. Its got for those people who usually run there systems at max but like the ability to change it.

[fps justin]

whao. Didn't know that. Thats kinda cool.