Re: Power Supply


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Posted by scott oberg on September 10, 1999 at 11:47:28:

In Reply to: Power Supply posted by Don Pich on September 10, 1999 at 11:22:52:

I'm certainly not the guru on this, but there appear to be several problems with your plan. If you mean to say you're going to power the monitor from the AC out on the CPU, there's really no problem there, other than the fact that it might be a royal pain for maintenance if you want to change the CPU and test things, etc. I also don't know if the monitor comes with an Isolation Transformer, but I understand that isolating the power to the monitor is key for proper operation. That would mean that your power would go from the wall, to the cpu, to the isolation transformer, to the monitor. Not all that Elegant. If it was me, I'd just run power in to a distribution point (ie: power bar), and power the CPU and the Isolation transformer independently from there.

I think that this is the most common approach to the power distribution issue. Hope that helps.

: Greetings!

: I am building a cabinet from scartch, and hope to use a PC for the hardware. The problem I am thinking about is how I supply power to the monitor.

: I plan on buying a Wells-Gardner U3100 19" monitor. Since I haven't gotten an answer back from them in about two weeks, I figured I would check here.

: Would it be possible to hook up the monitor power to the PS from the computer, or is there something else that I have to do?

: Thank you for any help
: Don





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