Author Topic: Smart String Hub Inside or Outside?  (Read 3031 times)

Offline bcstuff

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Re: Smart String Hub Inside or Outside?
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2011, »
Bill the power supplies you have been running what kind of load were they running?

If you are only pulling a few amps then its not going to create much heat.

I am intending on running about 1500 nodes and the power supply will be running at about 80% load, 48amps on a 60amp PSU.

I think I am going to mount 2 hubs in a c1500, one on each side when open, then running the atx connector to one board and drive connectors to the other board.

As for the PSU it looks like I am leaning to a large storage tote with the PSU inside and hoping the airspace inside is large enough to not overheat the PSU.

Something else I have considered is a cheap fan pulling air through a heat exchanger/tubing so that the expensive PSU is not exposed to sucking moisture. I much rather replace a cheap fan than an $80 PSU.

By the way I'm in South Florida and so I am more concerned with heat, not too many days here below 32F.



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