Modding Daisy chaining psu connectors?

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  1. metarinka

    metarinka What's a Dremel?

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    hey yall, I'm fairly sure this should be okay just making sure as I'm more of a self taught electronics dude

    Would it be okay to run every drive and peripherial from the comp on 1 line thats just been Y splitted a bunch of times, the psu woudln't be under any more than its normally has nor would it be very close to its MAx W, I just was wondering if there's issues with line clairity, signal strength etc. what order I should daisy chain etc
    In case you wondered its an Antec true power 440W.

    and heres what would be chained
    3-4 HDd's, 1-2 optical drives, ~4 fans

    Didn't want to start smelling smoke if the line gets to hot or anything wondering if any of you guys had exp with this
     
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  2. Fraggster

    Fraggster What's a Dremel?

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    i had issues with my 300w when i did that
     
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  3. my58vw

    my58vw Plexi Expert

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    No problems if you power supply is 450 Watt+, in this case more is better if you can afford it... :D

    Ran 6 SCSI hard disks on a single chain on a 550 Watt powersupply and had not problems...

    good luck :yawn:
     
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  4. Xiachunyi

    Xiachunyi What's a Dremel?

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    Just as long as you don't pull too much current through the wires you are okay.
     
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  5. metarinka

    metarinka What's a Dremel?

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    I'm gonna go ahead with it, my only worry was I was gonna pull too much from the wires or get a really "dirty" signal. I Was gonna desolder most of the other lines to save space in my case too. wish me luck!
     
    metarinka, 23 Feb 2004
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  6. Twernmilt

    Twernmilt What's a Dremel?

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    Good Luck.
     
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  7. 3N1GM4

    3N1GM4 What's a Dremel?

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    watch out... if you pull to much current, it could not work... or be like my ****ty ass psu and destroy

    your :
    mother board
    dvd rom
    cd-r rom
    hard drive 1
    hard drive 2 bootsector
    1 fan
    radeon 9600 pro
    and itself...

    so watch out. :D
     
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  8. 1398342003

    1398342003 Ubermodder

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    Personally I would be worried about drawing too much current for the wire and melting it. But that's just me personally.
     
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  9. taliban_raider

    taliban_raider Just some guy; you know

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    Well I had issues running 2 hdds and 2 cdroms off the one line, some of them would power done and any time i ran both cdroms the hdds crashed and gave me a bsod. I just unsoldered all the wires from the psu and ran one uber thick cable and split all the molexes off that never had a problem again.
     
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  10. Bmw M3

    Bmw M3 What's a Dremel?

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    dont use Y splitters it will look messy get 90 degree molex then there is only one wire but lots of connectors :D
     
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  11. irsekz

    irsekz What's a Dremel?

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    before you plug it in put a volt meter up to each moltex and make sure its all go
     
    irsekz, 25 Feb 2004
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  12. TMM

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    i have everthing in my case except my Aero7 and HDD on one chain. so i've got 2x cd/dvd, floppy, 3 case fans and controller, ccfls and a little LCD on one loop :p

    i have a 400watt psu, some cheapo brand so i wouldn't care if i damaged it
     
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