17Dec208 (UTC +8) On 12/16/08, Carlos Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > That's actually reasonable. If you want to bring the cost down, just > buy an M2ATX power supply (80USD) which is an intelligent power supply > for any motherboard designed specifically for car use. Buy the > motherboard and all other components locally and fabricate your own > casing depending on the type of setup you want. Casing can even be made > of wood as long as you have two fans cooling the components. > > My CarPC finally found its home in my muscle car running LinuxICE, a > distro built for car computers: > http://forums.openice.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=488
Anybody put in a UPS? I hate the line-interactives, they're crap. Must go online UPS the next time I can afford one. Probably 3kVA or so. UPS I think is a must-have because every time you refuel at a gas station, you'd have to turn off then later re-start the engine... which of course power cycles everything: the printer, WLAN AP, and the Globe Internet thing too. Only laptops stays on. Worse thing is, as the car battery gets more and more drained, my DC-to-AC converter starts giving out square-waves. Yeah, I know, it's about 6 years old already, but square-waves can't be good for computers. Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA http://www.laggui.com ( Singapore / Manila / California ) Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer PGP fingerprint = 6E62 A089 E3EA 1B93 BFB4 8363 FFEC 3976 FF31 8A4E _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
