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Re: [LUG] Power supply behaviour (and sources)

 

I loved the link to the simulator Tom, fascinating. 

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On 29 Sep 2011, at 07:30, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 28/09/11 10:58, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>> A power supply from a PC should start up when the mains is plugged into it?
>> 
>> It draws a little power from the mains - at least there is a spark
>> noise when the lead is shoved in live, but its fan doesn't start up.
>> 
>> There is no voltage on the green lead that I gather is supposed to be
>> +5v and driven low to switch it on
>> 
>> Plugs from it are a block of 8 and a block of 24 - ATX isn't it.
>> 
>> 
>> My room is so quiet at the moment though that I may be in the market
>> for a new machine that has less howling fans.  Old one is a Dell
>> Poweredge 1850 and I use grahics cards in PCI-Express slots.
>> 
>> What does the panel like for hardware these days?
>> 
> I got a 4 core 64 bit AMD jobbie with 4 gig ram that I'm finding hard to utilise 
> anywhere near fully (other than folding@home)
> got that from novatech as a barebones bundle - I use chacher-ng proxy cash so with 
> a 12meg (small) boot iso for ubuntu I was up an running in less than an hour.
> but I'd prefer http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/ if the winters going to be 
> another cold one
> Tom te tom te tom
> 
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