Re: Any suggestions, please?

On 11/09/2010 02:49, David Fletcher wrote:
This now seems to be a PSU general discussion thread, so I would like to
comment that it is no longer necessary to have an ATX power supply at all if
a little less computing power is sufficient.

My last project that I completed a few weeks ago was an upgrade of my home
built mini server. It now has an Intel made Atom board installed, which takes
12V. Period. It has a step down to 5V converter on board to supply power to
the hard drive. With a 1TB hard drive installed and fully loaded running work
units with the boinc client it's taking about 30W from the mains. The power
supply is an Astec (Emmerson) open frame switcher. If anybody wants to see
the fruit of my labours this should give you a picture:-

http://flightmaker.hopto.org/me/portrait.jpg

Maybe the case is a bit OTT but I wanted a good project to use my little
milling machine on.

The server was running 24/7 for about 3 years before I upgraded it so
hopefully I won't have to touch it again for a while.

Dave


Most interesting, David. Thanks for this post and pic. I'll keep in mind.

You are referring to your "server". But what do you use as your "client"?

And just following on from the above, one can have a setup using a car
battery, and kept up to charge via a charger, plus a bit more fiddly
bits, to run your computer and therefore without the need for a PSU and
which would not only give you a stable power supply but also be immune
to power fluctuations or power failures (the latter in the short term of
course).

There is an article on how to achieve this but I would need to go
searching for it in my archives (seeing as how my friend, who has since
deaded himself by having a heart-attack and now cannot provide the info,
was using this process).

BC

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