Re: [asterisk-users] Electric usage of a tdm400p

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Chiodini
Erick, It looks like the 2.5 laptop drive requires 5 watts to spin up. Adding that to the 15 watts for the Digium card, leaves about 40 watts available for the MB. It's unlikely that the system will be producing ring voltages when the drive is spinning up. It depends on how conservative you may

Re: [asterisk-users] Electric usage of a tdm400p

2006-10-19 Thread Mojo with Horan Company, LLC
Further, I should have mentioned my resolution. As Bob mentioned, upgrade the power supply now to give you options and peace of mind in the future. I am using a picoPSU-120 in the aforementioned itx box, for example, http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.417/.f?category=13 and have been

Re: [asterisk-users] Electric usage of a tdm400p

2006-10-18 Thread Bob Chiodini
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:59 -0500, Erick Perez wrote: Hi people, When you use a TDM400p with 4FXS i know i need to connect a 12V connector to power the FXS lines. Im not good at electric stuff so I ask...If I have a 60W DC to DC adapter (80W peak) then, how much power will the TDM 400P

Re: [asterisk-users] Electric usage of a tdm400p

2006-10-18 Thread Erick Perez
Well Im planning to use a mini-itx, a laptop hdd and a 4fxs digium card. the mini-itx comes with a 60W DC to DC adapter (80W peak). So I need power to manage the hdd, motherboard,the tdm card. A disk cable can be made available, but is not present as a factory default. So My real concern is

Re: [asterisk-users] Electric usage of a tdm400p

2006-10-18 Thread Mojo with Horan Company, LLC
I set up a similar system on an VIA Epia 5000, and I had issues when I included the CDROM in the mix. I had to use another ATX power supply to complete the install, but then once I removed the CDROM drive I had no power issues. I presume you could install the OS with the CDROM drive

[asterisk-users] Electric usage of a tdm400p

2006-10-17 Thread Erick Perez
Hi people, When you use a TDM400p with 4FXS i know i need to connect a 12V connector to power the FXS lines. Im not good at electric stuff so I ask...If I have a 60W DC to DC adapter (80W peak) then, how much power will the TDM 400P consume? can it be powered? --