The thought just occurred to me, IF I knew what I was doing with common power supplies that I have laying around here:
1. The built-in fan could be directed to (or from) a little box of hard drives, say for instance 4 x 3.5" SATAs
2. Power jacks are right there for hard drives
3. As Pogoplug seems to have its power supply with a nice, clean jack on its motherboard, that could be reconnected to the larger power supply not only for efficiency (might not though) it could ensure a pogo had zero power when you wanted it that way. And the handy main switch on the power supply for a storm or something, even one central point for surge protection and noise filtering.
Yes if i had the budget I'd get 4 x 1.5 TB USB hard drives and piggyback 2-4 Pogoplugs and be done with it, but there's such a wealth of connectors to salvage off even a dead PC power supply, that's what's piquing my thoughts at the moment.
Not sure how common PC power supplies work though, and it could involve some prohibitive impasse.
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Attached is a picture of the power supply connector that plugs into a PC motherboard. The guy in the video used a wire to connect a couple of them so power would be available at the desired tap. As for ME, this is looking like one of the most useful projects in recent memory.
Because of this it might not only be possible to
make an array of nice, clean switches for that connector, even do that with a socket that can be reused to another power supply but even control ons and offs with a Raspberry Pi. I have no desire to get a Pi but others might see the light here.
Here's the video that got me thinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aSjbP4DUc
In the end I can't say if this is efficient or not without testing (and that won't happen real soon), but again those usually do have a built-in fan and I'm reasonably sure the electricity is safe from that side of the power supply.
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-updater- I'm relatively on fire with the of a plug that mates with a power supplys motherboard connector, has item switches and one main switch for the green and black - big enough to house little circuit breakers. If they already make those, I need a few! If they don't make them, I might get around to making some for fun. Too cool.
Have a nice day, I'll get off this computer and out for some air.
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/21/2015 03:48PM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.
