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Re: [LUG] New toy...

 

On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Simon Waters wrote:

On 21/04/12 22:53, Gordon Henderson wrote:

.... and I've found that I can connect a USB lead
from the hub to the power USB socket on the Pi and it works OK.

I was half expecting you to be selling Aluminium cases on EBay to affix
them to trains or some such by now.

Noooooooooooooooo.......

I could rant on for hours about the hassles involved connecting PCs to trains, however for the sake of my sanity (and everyone elses!) I won't.

It's a shade under-powered for the train application though. The PCs I have on the train are 1.6GHz Atoms with 1GB RAM, 4GB of flash, 2 Ethernets, on-board 3G + GPS devices running Linux, squid, firewalling, dhcp, VPNs and a wodge of other monitoring stuff... Fed off a DC-DC convertor which takes train power (+/- 55V DC) down to their needs (24V)

Gordon

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