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 power supply. A good place to check to see if you can make a proprietary power supply work is pinouts.ru (yes, I know it is in Russia, but to my best knowledge it is not crawling with malicious software).
Directions for Soldering of Compact Emergency ATX 12V Output Board
Last Friday night one of the local amateur radio groups that I\’m affiliated with had a get together with good food, friends and activity. We soldered together the Compact ATX 12V board that we wrote up a little while back. There were a few people who were unable to stay and put it together. For them (and for anyone else trying this), I have put together some instructions on how to put it together.Continue reading