Fan selection?

I'm working on a part cooling fan and wanted to know which fans I'm looking for. I ordered these:2pack 50mm x 15mm 5015 12V Dual Ball Bearing DC Brushless Cooling Blower Fan BB5015H12 with 2 Pin Terminal UL TUV [www.amazon.com]

And they work great but don't respond to pwm at all,, they're binary at 100% or completely off. This leads me to believe that lowering the voltage, 2 pin pwm doesn't work, which makes me wonder, which fans do I need to get 50% airflow at 50%?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/20/2017 05:34PM by clearlynotstefan.

Some fans does not work with PWM signal, but does work with voltage signal. To achieve that simply put a capacitor (I used 47uF) on power cables going to fan, it will smooth the PWM to some almost-constant voltage and let you control the fan speed

I don't advise using a capacitor to smooth the PWM because it causes high peak currents through the MOSFETs unless you also use a series resistor. Some fans just don't work with PWM. Other fans work with low frequency PWM, so try adding parameter F100 to your initial M106 command.

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Another warning about the capacitor: If you change the polarity of the wires by accident, it will blow (happened to me).