T i m wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:00:07 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

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I *still* think 12 volts 7 amps sounds a crazy amount of power for a
fanless Atom board (even including some disk drives).

I've not suggested anything otherwise, just that my friend had a 7A
PSU spare and I thought bigger might be better (considering it was
made in the Far East, was 'cheap', felt 'light' and I wanted it to run
cool rather than hot)?

It's something
like three times as much power as my I5 desktop with four disk drives
in takes.

And I wonder what capacity PSU you have in there? 450-500W possibly?
;-)

It has an 80 watt power supply. :-) For the good reason that a
larger power supply would probably be horribly inefficient when
running at 18 watts.

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Chris Green
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