Hi David I clicked around on the other power supply messages on the list, but did not see a specific PN or brand of your "Tank" Power supply with multiple outlets. Can you put your hand on such a beast or is it just a reasonable specification waving in the wind?
I have places for several of these devices. I attempted to install a VoIP node at my wife's cousin's and after 10 minutes, she waved me away saying Keine Kabel Salat.. With the node, a phone, power and ethernet - it is quite impressive - in the wrong way. A dual outlet (or more) PS would help. Bob G On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 09:55 -0800, David Smith wrote: > Thanks to all who responded to my recent message on power supplies. A > couple of comments: > > I appreciate the reminder to post in plain-text, rather than my > (gmail) default HTML. I intend this post to be plain-text :-) > > I don't mean to point fingers specifically at Soekris devices for > being "hard" on power supplies; I don't think they are. Rather it > sounds like the average low power DC supply on the market today just > isn't that great. For most uses, say occasional use powering a > portable hard drive, that's no big deal. However, it seems like the > Soekris device -- based on its bullet-proof, no-moving-parts, > just-let-it-run design -- puts a continuous rather than sporadic > demand on the power supply. In the average year I suspect the power > supply for my portable USB drive is on approximately 100-200 hours. > By comparison my Soekris boxes run continuously, or 59808 hours per > year. > > I like the suggestion of the "tank" power supply: one item, built to > last, with multiple low-power DC outlets suitable for powering several > devices simultaneously (Soekris or not). > > I love the Soekris devices and will continue to use them. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
