Thunderchild
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I'm refurbishing a 10 CD copy tower, I've discovered that it can actually host 12 writers and would like to add another two in the process of replacing the existing drives. the power supply is PC sized etc but only provides 12 (20 A) and 5 (18 A) volts with a total output of 320 W
each drive of which there are 11 at present uses 1.5 A of 5 and 12 volts and I'll assume that the controller board also uses 1.5 A
will this power supply be able to manage another 2 CD writers ? at present the voltage is fairly steady at 11.94-12.02 so I'm assuming that if I get another 2 drives and thats too much I'll get either bigger fluctuations of voltage or it will just go into overload protection
if I'd need to replace the power unit to increase its capacity where can I get a power unit from ? unfortunately most PC power supplies are a rip off as no matter how much power they provide thay all put out 20 A at 12 volts, I'm still trying to figure this out as I remember that in the latest update of PSU specs it was realized that most of the PC ran off the 12 volts as CPU's now have onboard SMPS on the motherbaord that run from the 12 V rather than 5 V as before
each drive of which there are 11 at present uses 1.5 A of 5 and 12 volts and I'll assume that the controller board also uses 1.5 A
will this power supply be able to manage another 2 CD writers ? at present the voltage is fairly steady at 11.94-12.02 so I'm assuming that if I get another 2 drives and thats too much I'll get either bigger fluctuations of voltage or it will just go into overload protection
if I'd need to replace the power unit to increase its capacity where can I get a power unit from ? unfortunately most PC power supplies are a rip off as no matter how much power they provide thay all put out 20 A at 12 volts, I'm still trying to figure this out as I remember that in the latest update of PSU specs it was realized that most of the PC ran off the 12 volts as CPU's now have onboard SMPS on the motherbaord that run from the 12 V rather than 5 V as before