> Why not have a single (redundant) big 24VDC power supply for
> all the boards instead of supplying them all 120VAC?
>
> Would there be a commercial market for such "unicluster"
> devices, where multiple independent boards are associated
> with a single power supply transformer --- or maybe an al
lrwiman wrote:
> *never ever* cheap out on power supplies.
This is good advice, but personally I have never seen the
point of giving every machine in a rack of computers its own
power supply rather than having one big one and just running
DC all the way up the rack. The fact that it is not don
> co-worker (30 years of computer repair experience) that your *never ever*
> cheap out on power supplies. And crappy cases almost always come with
> crappy power supplies. This is expecially true for a team like that one
> that would have to have constant operation.
> Crappy power supplies can
> > A) A doublechecking cleanup team of computers. A team of (say) five
> > PIII-500s, 64MB SRAM and suitable motherboards, with cheap everything
else
> > (cases, etc, and probably only one old monitor to share among them all)
>
> As a computer repairman, of two years, I agree with my father of (5
> A) A doublechecking cleanup team of computers. A team of (say) five
> PIII-500s, 64MB SRAM and suitable motherboards, with cheap everything else
> (cases, etc, and probably only one old monitor to share among them all)
As a computer repairman, of two years, I agree with my father of (5 years
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