On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Being new to PC hardware too, I'm trying to figure out how the picoPSU > mentioned at the bottom of this page: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hardware_Requirements > and which looks like this: > http://www.idotpc.com/thestore/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=10&idproduct=262 > manages to power a HDD & CDROM as well as the mobo? > I have a 120 watt picopsu. It used to power just a mobo with 1 HD, for a short period 2 HD's and now it is powering 3 2.5" (laptop) HD's in RAID5, and a mobo of course. Mobo is a biostar TA690G and CPU is an AMD BE-2350. BTW, this is not used for emc2 but for my homeserver.
> I've looked (maybe just not hard enough?) for a 24-pin ATX female to > 24-pin ATX male + 2*(4-pin peripheral) or even remotely similar > splitter > cable, to hook it all up. > You just put the picopsu in the connector on the mobo. > The picoPSU is a compact option, and therefore attractive, but so far > the only suitable power cables I've found are attached to boxy power > supplies, usually with inconvenient fan venting arrangements. > I have nameless, 19V 90 watt, laptop powersupply which powers the picopsu. > Any hint would be much appreciated, otherwise I'll have to go for a > bigger case, to accommodate a big boxed PSU. (At least they have > over-voltage and other protection built in, I read. Hmmm ... ) My server is running on it for 1.5 years now, never had a hardware problem. I still have to redo the case though. I built it into an SGI O2 but couldn't wait to power it up. So, it is still attached to the prototype frame. Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
