Installation

All this, in there?

I have to admit, while looking at all the parts spread out on the table, it seemed that the installation was going to take a little while.  It did.  I ran into a few minor glitches along the way that slowed the process considerably.  No show-stoppers, but glitches nonetheless. I started by mocking up the various configurations.  There a quite a few different configurations possible depending on how you want to orient the three fans.  The large rectangular bracket forms a backbone for the fans.  It has a ladder configuration on the big surface that allows you to mount a fan directly to the bracket in one of four different locations.  If you want the fan to pull air through the bracket, you're out of luck, as the fan won't turn if it is installed upside down due to interference with the bracket.  A little Dremeling could fix this, but I elected to just have it force air down through the bracket.  I've only pictured a couple of different configurations, but you could put two fans up top, as well.  The hanging brackets allow you to orient two of the fans at right angles to the large bracket. The folks at Logisys are obviously proud of their kit, as there is no less than 6 Logisys logo stickers plastered all over the hardware. I left them on for the photos, but I will most likely remove them later.

The kit includes all the screws you need, but here's a little advice for the manufacturer:  Paint the items, and then tap the holes for the screws.  The screws could just barely be forced to screw into the holes without stripping out the screw heads.  If your kit is like this, I advise running a single screw through all the holes before you try to install  the fans so that you don't have to use so much force.  That way you'll only have one mangled screw instead of five or six.  I strongly advise only attaching one or two screws to get the assembly ready for installation into the case, as it might take a few tries to get the arrangement right to avoid interference with other objects within the case. Once you figure out the final arrangement, you can take it out and install all the hardware. It worked best for me to get all the fans assembled outside the case, and then install the bracket as a single assembly.