How many fans on one molex cable?

Dogsnapper6

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I've got an antec p280 and am adding the last two out of 6 fans but I have only one molex cable running from a fan controller to the PSU I was wondering since the last two I bought are cooler master sickleflow 120 mm they come with two molex connections a female and male I was wondering that because I have already filled all the spots on the cable can I just keep connecting the four pin molex into molex? Even temporarily till I can get another molex cable delivered. Or is there another way I wish my MSI z97 g45 had the 3 pin connectors labeled sysfan weren't 4 pin connectors that also doesn't make sense to me.
Thanks a lot in advance for any answers I'm trying to finally put this whole pc together tonight.
 
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A fan uses somewhere around 2W of power. A molex connector can handle around 5 amps of current at 12 volts for a total of 60W of power.
I personally wouldn't try to connect 30 fans to a single 4-pin molex, but you will probably not have any issues overloading a circuit with fans.
How many though if your using a fan adapter that has four pin then it just leaves a four pin behind eveytime it looks infinite but I don't think you can hook ten fans on one molex or can you? Is there a maximum?
 
A fan uses somewhere around 2W of power. A molex connector can handle around 5 amps of current at 12 volts for a total of 60W of power.
I personally wouldn't try to connect 30 fans to a single 4-pin molex, but you will probably not have any issues overloading a circuit with fans.
 
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