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Step 3Prep your wires.

Prep your wires.
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1. Take your USB cord and strip away 2-3 cm wire. Make sure not to cut the inside wires.
2. Cut off the excess shielding/
3. Usual the Red and Black wires are going to be POWER and GROUND so go ahead and cut any other wire out. You can test the wires with a volt meter, but its pretty universal system,
4. Go ahead and strip 2cm of the black and red wires.

5. Prep your fan RED and Black wires and strip the wires 2cm back.
6. Slip on your shrink wrap tube now to get a good finish later.
6. Now set up and your soldering iron. and solder the red to red, and black to black.
after everything has cooled. MOved your shrink wrap tube over the solder wires and heat up the tube.
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