[Wiltshire] Nice hardware offer

[Sam R.]

Hi Dave,

I've dug out the PSU. I pulled it from a working machine that had 
developed a "stutter"; a new PSU fixed the problem so as far as I'm 
concerned it's dead.

It has a 4 pin 12v supply. There are some PCIE plugs with 2 pins but 
they're both ground. I'm not sure if you'd be able to do anything with 
it? It's yours if you want it?

The only other things I can think is to try and go to a maker space or 
hack space. They may have something laying around somewhere you could 
have? Or of course make your own by buying the correct connector, crimps 
and cable.

At that power draw it's between 264 and 288 Watts. I'm running a Gen 8 
HP microserver with 4x4TB WD Red drives and an Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 
G1610T @ 2.30GHz and getting 80w idle (according to my UPS). I've 
actually never tried stressing it. It's only a dual core so I imagine 
your CPU has a bit more poke to it! Mine's just a file server and runs 
some very small VMs for my mail and web server.

Any plans for yours long term?

Thanks,

Sam

On 21/05/2019 22:43, David Fletcher via Wiltshire wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 21:55 +0100, Sam R. via Wiltshire wrote:
>> Funnily enough Dave, I have an old ATX PSU that I forgot I about until I
>> went into the attic the other day. I can't comment on if it has the
>> connector you're looking for. I'll go dig it out tomorrow after work and
>> see what's on it.
>>
>> Out of interest, what's the power draw on your new fanless motherboard?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sam
>>
> Hi Sam,
>
> As far as I can tell, the required internal power in plug looks like it
> might be one of these:-
> 39-01-2020 - Molex Female Connector Housing - Mini-Fit Jr, 4.2mm Pitch,
> 2 Way, 2 Row
>
> At the moment I'm running with a DC power plug lead chopped from an old
> wall wart shoved into the back panel input socket. hooked onto a desktop
> laboratory power supply at the other end.
>
> I've just installed Ubuntu server onto a new Toshiba P300 2TB drive
> received today, and to stress it out a bit for a while before I decide
> to upgrade my home server I'm running BOINC projects on it which has
> certainly warmed up the heatsink. At the moment it's concentrating on
> SETI at home and World Community Grid. The current meter on the power
> supply set to 12V is wandering between 1.1A and 1.2A.
>
> My limited experience of old ATX PSUs that have sat gathering dust for
> some years is that when put back into use they work for an hour or so
> and then go BANG! tripping out the ring main circuit breaker.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>