Electrical question

[Farrell]

I see now that I did not directly answer your question David. My fan is 
120V, so all I had to do was take an electrical cord (lamp cord) with a plug 
on one end and bare wire ends on the other. I simply spliced the two cord 
leads onto the two wired dangling out of the fan with crimp connectors (the 
pink things in the first picture). I don't remember is polarity was a 
factor - likely if you hook it up backwards maybe the fan will go 
backwards - if so, just hook it up the other way. IMHO, forget the 12V and 
just get the 120V so that you don't have to monkey around with batteries - 
you can just plug it into the wall.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> So I'm making a new hot box for my soundboard panels.  I want to install a
> small little fan like a computer cooling fan in the box to circulate the
> air.  They come with a couple of wires (not like a plug or anything) and
> information about voltage, max current, all kinds of stuff that means
> nothing to me, the electrically challenged.  If I want to hook this thing
> up, how do I do it?  Can I just connect it to a 12 volt battery if it's a 
> 12
> volt fan?  If I want to plug it into something do I need something like a
> capacitor to pull down the current to a level that this little thing can
> handle?  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
> David Love