Well today I opened up an old dead PSU After making sure I wasn't going to blow myself up, I checked out the circuit board. All the +12's, +5's, grounds etc, all meet on their own respective blob of solder. Therefore I am assuming that I can take eg. The 3 grounds on a SATA power cable and cut them off 2cm from the plug then join them all together and use a single cable? Or is this assumption wrong, and going to kill my PSU/HDD? If it's ok to connect them all together, would it be possible to do something like this: I know the diagram is very poor But yeah, the idea being to run high current wire from this lump of solder on the PSU's PCB over to a distribution block, from which I could run thinner wires to each relevant component. Is this possible? Also, back to the original question, is it ok for me to eg. Take the 4 pin +12v connector and solder the 2 12v leads together and the 2 grounds together, which means I can run only 2 wires over to it? Any input appreciated Thanks
yes, but if you run everything to the dist block then it still has a star earth. that will work fine.
The reason for these connectors to have several of each wire is to be able to supply more power. You assumptions would work as long as you don't try to use as much power as the plug was innitially ment for. The extra mobo 12V connector is ment to provide pretty high currents, so if you are going to use only 2 wires for it, make sure they have double the current capacity of the original wires.
