Fan hub to fan controller overwattage?

I would like to add that with a 59 watt load, it may be a good idea to split that channel into 2 lighter channels since the controller has more channels left.

I am not sure if all fans will draw power in an even/linear way. The controllers are a voltage device. So with the dial all the way down the controller will feed the fans 0-1.5 volts(not enough to run). As the dial is turned up the voltage will increase(most fans start to turn at about 5 volts.). The fans will draw power depending on the voltage the get.

OHMS law states that wattage = voltage^2(squared) / resistance(now not all loads are the same at various voltages. so this is VERY simplified)

Lets say you have a 12 volt fan that requires 12 watts or 1 amp. That fan appears as a 12 ohm load(you will not always have such nice numbers to work with).

Lets plug in the numbers.

@ 5 volts
Wattage = 5^2(voltage squared)/12(ohms)
2.083 watts. down from the 12 watts at 12 volts.

Again, not all devices work this way. This is not a perfect world and a fan is NOT a resistor. I have house fans that take only 20 watts less at low compared to med/high(and these are fans that max out at 80-100 watts) making high the most efficient way to run them.

Truth be told, I am not sure how NZXT rates these devices because it is simply a splitter on a board. ALL the fans are just paralleled to one another. As long as the traces on the board and the wire connecting it to the power supply can handle the load, if should not be an issue.

Please note while 60 watts seems like very little power, at 12 volts it is 5 amps.
5 amps @ 120 volts is 600 watts. It needs a wire size that can handle 5 amps. Current is why you use larger wire more than voltage for the "low" voltages we are dealing with here.

Now onto increasing the power handling of the device. Bigger wire and larger trances are how you increase a power rating of a splitter. This is the same reason a appliance extension cord uses larger wire than one for Christmas lights.

Capacitors are good for smoothing power and when combined with inductors in switching power supplies can help provide very clean power(thus the rather large coils/caps on that controller). They can also be used to block DC in audio circuits and with resistors can perform a similar filtering to the cap/coil assembly(at a cost of some voltage). With a different configuration the same parts can be used to filter audio(remove bass for speakers that can not handle it/filter out high frequency noises/ect)