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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
