Need help to set PWM frequency to 25kHz on pin 8 of Arduino Mega to control speed of a 4-wire cpu fan

Question

This question is not same as the other one and this is more about employing the pwm signal to drive a CPU fan;

I am trying to follow the answer by Edgar Bonet on the question Need help to set PWM frequency to 25kHz and generate the same 25khz on pin 8 of arduino mega which is controlled by TIMER 4 and use this pwm signal to control the speed of a 4-wire cpu fan(with black, yellow, green and blue wires);

Following is my updated code for generating the pwm signal on timer 4

void analogWrite25k(int value)
{
 OCR4C = value;
}
void setup()
{ 
 TCCR4A = 0;
 TCCR4B = 0;
 TCNT4 = 0; 
 TCCR4A = _BV(COM4C1) // non-inverted PWM on ch. C
 | _BV(WGM41); // mode 10: phase correct PWM, TOP = ICR4
 TCCR4B = _BV(WGM43) 
 | _BV(CS40); // prescaler = 1
 ICR4 = 320; // TOP = 320
 // Set the PWM pin as output.
 pinMode( 8, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
 analogWrite25k(10);
 for (;;) ; // infinite loop
}

I have connected pin 8 on the mega to the pwm input on the fan(blue wire) but I dont see any variation in fan speed and fan seems to run at full speed;

I dont really have any means or tools to verify if its really generating a 25khz pwm signal but fan speed is not changing or if its not generating a 25khz pwm signal because of which there is no change in the speed of fan;

I am stuck at this point and any help on this would he highly appreciated;

• dandavis: can you fan accepts such a high frequency PWM signal?
• techniche: yes, its a cpu fan used for intel cpus and the fan datasheet says the signal needs to be ideally 25KHz
• dandavis: you should be able to measure duty cycle with a DMM or even an LED; if it's getting adjusted, it would imply operation...
• techniche: i dont have a DMM, how can it be measured with an LED? and the fan speed should be noticeable ideally since I tried values as low as 5 and 10 for duty cycle and I dont see any variation in fan speed
• dandavis: the LED gets dimmer at low duty-cycle values. make sure to (dramatically) limit current when testing.

Answer 1

I've just tested your setting with older "Alpine 64 GT" CPU Fan and it works as expected. I've just added parsing integers sent from serial monitor, so I don't have to change code anymore.

void analogWrite25k(int value)
{
 OCR4C = value;
}
void setup()
{ 
 TCCR4A = 0;
 TCCR4B = 0;
 TCNT4 = 0;
 // Mode 10: phase correct PWM with ICR4 as Top (= F_CPU/2/25000)
 // OC4C as Non-Inverted PWM output
 ICR4 = (F_CPU/25000)/2;
 OCR4C = ICR4/2; // default: about 50:50
 TCCR4A = _BV(COM4C1) | _BV(WGM41);
 TCCR4B = _BV(WGM43) | _BV(CS40);
 Serial.begin(115200);
 // Set the PWM pin as output.
 pinMode( 8, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
 int w = Serial.parseInt();
 if (w>0) {
 analogWrite25k(w);
 Serial.println(w);
 }
}

• techniche: you have connected the pwm line of fan directly to pin 8 of mega right? or is there any additional circuitry?
• techniche: amazon.in/Terabyte-CPU-Cooler-intel-LGA775/dp/B01BDOI9KE/… thats the fan I have; could it be that the fan has 4 wires but is not a pwm fan??? these fans are used as CPU fans so I thought they must definitely respond to pwm; any thoughts?