After our recent activity making the emergency ATX power supplies, I got a call one evening from one of the hams who couldn’t get their salvaged 24-pin power supplies to work. It turns out that many of the larger computer manufacturers use their own proprietary pinouts. In this case, he got bit by a Compaq …
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Jan
10
Preventing Accidental Shorts on Prototypes
Many of the boards that we make never end up in an enclosure. Whether for prototyping at the office or projects for home, it is just extra work we don’t want to mess with. If the board ends up needing a little more protection due to lots of loose wires or it is given to …
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