On Monday 26 January 2004 7:30 pm, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > Hi guys, > > FIrst of all I apologize of an OT thread, but i would like to get an > estimate of how much power (in Watts) would this consume: > > motherboard: QDI Legend I > processor: Celeron 333 MHz > graphics: STB Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT chipset), 16MB (agp) > sound: SB Live! player (pci) > HDD: probably WD, at max 20 GB (havent bought it yet and the > old one got > fried by a sudden power surge) optional: DVD ROM (probably one of the new > toshibas) > > I've searched all my manuals, and did some (not much though, I confess) > googling, and havent found a satisfactory answer.. I'm asking, because I > decided to put this into my car and I need to know what type of inverter I > should buy.
Hmmm, I think you will find the actual power used is not the important figure. Power on peak will come in to it, but PC power supplies are expecting a sine wave they can pull large pulses of power from and inverters put out a current limited square wave, they do not work well together. Vastly oversizing may be OK, but I have not tried it. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
