ATX Power Supply Converter Board

[smeighan]

Dave Pitts has made AN ATX board

This is the board you can plug an atx power supply into and then get your 5,12v dc power out, He is selling the pcb for $5.


Mouser BOM, total for parts is $12.51 without advantage of ordering in quantity.
http://www.mouser.com/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=14185af9ea


If any of you might need such a board, dave is running a coop on his website now
http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php/topic,266.0.html


Dave has been most productive this year.


He and some others have created
Pi Player. Free software to run on the rhaspberry pi allowing it to be your show computer. raspberry pi computer around $40
Falcon-16. 16 channel controller for 180x and ws281x strings . Around $110 assembled
FPD. 32K channels of pixelnet (it is equivalent to two etherdongles). around $120 assembled
ATX power board. around $18 ea


I must like dave because i have all of these.
My show this year will be 22K channels.
(1) FPD. E1.31 in and then able to drive 8 Falcon-16's
(5) Facon-16's. This will give me 80 strings of lights.
(1) Pi player to run my show
(5) atx boards so i have power source.


thanks
sean


ps. i am feeling great, so nice to e home

 

[Charl Marais]

Welcome home Sean mate. Seems you are well on your way to recovery just don't sit in front of the pc too much 8) .