On Apr 26, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:55:08AM +0200, Dirk wrote:
>> On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Errm, ah, but there's something I'm not grokking here. When the  
> picopsu
> is plugged into the mobo, how do we get power to the HDD & CDROM? I've
> looked at the on-line manual for the mobo, and I can't find any
> connectors for bring power back out for peripherals. So it seems like
> distribution needs to occur before the mobo, but I haven't yet seen  
> any
> evidence that a cable to do that is marketed.
>
I have 2 molex connectors on the picopsu. Just enough for a HDD and  
CDROM.

> Yeah, I'm eyeing the 120W wide input voltage one, so I could hook it  
> up
> to the rectified output of one of the spare toroidal power  
> transformers
> cluttering my junkbox. (I'd prefer not to share power between control
> and drives, even before the DC-DC converter.)

That sounds interesting. I  have some room left for a small toroidal  
transformer. If I ever finish the frame I could put it inside.

Dirk

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