On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 21:39 +0200, Jan Hoevers wrote: > Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote on 6-4-2008 17:49: > > What I'd really like is to not only have industrial grade soekris > > boxes but also power supplies of same quality. I don't mind if they > > are 11 units of currency or 15 or 20 or 25 as long as they, once > > plugged in, do not die within a few months. > > Well, nothing keeps you from replacing the power supply with one that > has the desired quality. > > The standard soekris supply is 12 Volt, 1.5 Amp, D.C., unregulated, but > 1 Amp is fine, unless you have a hard disk or a very hungry PCI card. > Voltage can be anything between 11 and 20 Volt or more, depending on > your soekris model. See the soekris manuals for details or Poul-Henning > Kamp's page: http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/power.html. > > I have good experiences with those cheap 12 V., 1 A. wall things that > we all have lying around unused, but an industrial grade regulated > supply is of course also a good option, depending on your needs, desires > and budget. > > It's even possible to construct your own 12 Volt UPS, a concept is on > PHKs pages: http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/ups/. > > The standard soekris power supply may not have a spotless reputation, > but it's not difficult to supply power to a soekris. > > Jan Hoevers > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
It may not be difficult to power a soekris but when you purchase the soekris power supply and they almost all fail it's not too good. We did not find out about the quality of the power supplies until after 30 units were already in the field, almost all of them have failed, this has cost us money in supplying a diffrent brand and shipping and also cost downtime for the customer. It would also cost a small fortune in shipping to have the faulty units shipped back to mainland europe so we have not bothered, we will never buy the soekris power supplies again. With all that being said the boards have been excellent and we will continue buying them. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
