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  • Brains

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    Speaking of tinkering. I have an old computer tower that needs demolition.

    Occasionally you'll see a couch made out of the rear end of a car with a car radio installed somewhere. Or a tool box with the same kind of car radio.

    To power a 12v car stereo for those things. They use the power supply out a computer. The output is something like 10-12 volts. Internally cooled, with a fan, power supply.

    The rest of the tower is getting thrown away. After I pull the magnets out the hard drive. Plus the metal hard drive disc itself. The disc makes a neat wind chime decoration. Reflects the sun and swings around nicely.
    Standard ATX power supplies output a few very tightly controlled voltages:
    +12VDC (switched)
    -12VDC (switched)
    +5VDC (switched)
    -5VDC (rare, but if present switched)
    +5VDC (constant, low current)
    +3.3VDC (switched)

    There's a dedicated wire to turn it on, and a dedicated "power good" wire that will go high when the output voltages are guaranteed to be accurate. Some supplies will not remain on if there's not a sufficient load on the rails, so you may have to put a power resistor, lamp, etc. on each rail if that is the case. The max output current on each rail should be listed on a sticker on the case of the supply. The color code for the wires is a standard, and can be found with a quick google search (e.g. Yellow = +12VDC, Red = +5VDC, Orange = 3.3VDC, Black = Ground, etc.).
     

    Texas Heat

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    How is this thread still going? I guess I tinkered a little as well. I know my change isn't as dramatic as some of the others but you can only do so much with it.
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    no2gates

    These are not the droids you're looking for.
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    Thanks Mailman, I guess it looked strange and I wasn't thinking.

    You just don't notice the screws so much on a 1911. For some reason, the Highpoint screw seems to stick out like a sore thumb. All kidding aside, I've never shot one, but I hear that they are decent shooters. Just ugly as hell.
     

    Dad_Roman

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    All kidding aside, I've never shot one, but I hear that they are decent shooters. Just ugly as hell.
    ....and heavy as hell. But they always go bang and factory service is second to none.

    Guy on the HiPoint Forum picked up a carbine at a garage sale that had been in a house fire. It looked about like what you would expect. Sent it in with a note saying he was having trouble with it, halfheartedly as a joke and halfheartedly to see what they would do with it.

    Couple months later a fresh as a daisy carbine came back to him.

    I have the pistols....shot em once.

    Have the carbines...love those and shoot em regularly.
     
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