Plug the fan directly into your raspberry pi s 5v gnd gpio power pins as shown for instant cooling.
Raspberry pi 3 fan power pins.
The raspberry pi has two i2c connections at gpio 2 and 3 sda and scl are for i2c0 master and physical pins 27 and 28 are i2c pins that enable the pi to talk to compatible hat hardware.
Control a cooling fan on a raspberry pi 3.
You can use a 3 pin 12v pc fan on the pi 3.
The desktop kit includes the official raspberry pi 4 case which is an enclosed plastic box with nothing in the way of ventilation.
The recommended amount is between 700ma for a raspberry pi model a and up to 2 5a for a raspberry pi 3 model b see power supply requirements in the magpi issue 56 page 39.
The foundation even offers a raspberry pi 4 desktop kit.
The raspberry pi foundation s pi 4 announcement blog post touted the pi 4 as providing pc like level of performance for most users.
With a decent power supply such as the official 3a adapter on the pi 4 you can expect to pull about 1a to 2a.
Use black and red snip the other wire s as they will not be used.
Place in your case or even better on top of your pi s cpu to give it extra air flow.
Usage depends on what you re doing with the pi.
Using this approach the fan will run all the time i think it is much more i.
The fan should receive power automatically when the pi is booted.
The 5v power pins are connected directly to the pi s power input and will capably provide the full current of your mains adaptor less that used by the pi itself.
If you d like your fan to only run when needed based on pi temperature check out our raspberry pi fan controller guide.
Add a fan to a raspberry pi 3 with control to turn it on and off as required an easy way to add a fan is to simply connect the fan leads to a 3 3v or 5v pin and to ground.
Compatible with any and all raspberry pi computers but only the pi 3 runs hot enough to benefit from any cooling when doing intense computations.
Connect the fan s red wire to gpio pin 4 5v and the black wire to gpio pin 6 ground.