The 6GC Nerds Thread, For anyone that considers themselves a 'nerd' Options

[Bitter]

Good idea, thanks.

https://www.parts-express.com/lepai-lp40pa-...panel--310-4000

That might be a better idea, just runs on 120-240AC and puts out roughly the same power that a head unit would. The nice part is no dicking around with weird PSU stuff. They have some other Lepai amps that do blue tooth and have FM and other things built in, 2, 2.1 channel, etc. I guess it depends what you're making, but I assume some kind of garage stereo boom box like device?

[navseal345]

Yeah, basically a garage boom box. I already have a head unit & speakers in a "case" I built years ago, just the power supply I used isn't made for that. I'll try & get a few pics up soon.

[navseal345]

So I could maybe use one of these power supplies...
https://www.parts-express.com/cat/power-supplies/1474

[Box]

Or just use computer monitors off your phone, probably the easiest thing to do if you're wanting an 110-120V speaker system in the garage with a sub-woofer.

That or go baller and use studio monitors meant for recording studios.

[Bitter]

I think he wants a grab n go kind of box he can also run off the truck power too.

Yes correctly sized one of those could work, get a flush mount power cord socket input like a computer uses. And some other flush mount 12v for cables or a 12v power plug. I'll find parts when I get home.

[Box]

Hmm I see. I think I recall seeing something like that at some time, was a step stool and boombox in one. I think it even had what looked like a single DIN car stereo in it. That or I'm just imagining such a contraption, but I'm fairly sure I'm not.

[Bitter]

So I could maybe use one of these power supplies...
https://www.parts-express.com/cat/power-supplies/1474

https://www.parts-express.com/iec-ac-power-...holder--090-978 that would let you connect a 3 pin computer power supply cable to the box holding your stuff and let you ground it internally to the high voltage side of the amp just in case it got wet while connected to power, it ought to short to the ground path from the cord and not whatever it's sitting on or whomever is touching it.

Need to do some thinking on the DC connector though, most of those panel mount DC jacks are pretty low amperage.

[Box]

Hmm, the highest amperage 12V wall wart I can think of would be for synthesizers that used them but most had internal power supplies. Most head units are what 17W RMS per channel at best? So 68W RMS at 110-120V would be only .6 amps so something like a synthesizer wall wart would suffice. The ones for Dave Smith synths are 770mA at 13V.

[Bitter]

I've got a few 13.5V wall warts that are several amps, they do exist, and when you get to laptop power supplies those are commonly up to 90W and some are even larger. I've got a big brick for my externally powered Atom D525/Nvidia Ion mini itx system.

Anyway, I wasn't thinking about the head unit as so much as I was thinking about that bluetooth system and it's power needs, assuming he'd want to mount an inverter internally so it could connect to 12V without having to lug around an inverter too or install the power brick internally so the head unit could just be plugged into a wall, either way to keep it all inside the box. Less cords to screw with the better.

[Box]

Hmm, all the laptop ones I've had are 19V though. Would just have to look through the specs of the head unit for it's total wattage draw, but should still be able to find something that'd work. Do they not make boom boxes anymore? Why are we making things difficult?

[Bitter]

current boom boxes suck ass.

fairly easy to buck 19v down to 12v tho, and cheap too!

[Box]

Well they do make portable PA systems that'd blow away any boom box anyway, and would give woofers. Then just grab an inverter to run it off the truck. So the solution is just spend money, what else is new.

[Bitter]

Cat urine strips the galvanization from PC case sheet steel, it also corrodes motherboards and shorts their 12V to ground

[Box]

Darn you cats.

[Bitter]

Steam had a game on sale I've been wanting to play, going to try out some turn based strategy with giant stompy death machines soon. Might need some more RAM though, 8GB is the minimum :lol: and the HTPC is the only PC with a fast enough processor and it's only got two slots for RAM so....D'OH! At least I have 8GB in it, we'll just have to see how it runs.

I got the replacement board for the cat urine cooled PC, needs a BIOS update for the CPU I want to use in it, or I hope that's all it is. It's for sure an older BIOS without support for the 4460S. Otherwise I'll have to snipe a 4th gen i5 or i3 for it.

Well that's it, I'm never buying Asus boards again. Done with their ****. I've now had two different 80 series 1150 boards claim support for S series i5 CPU's and neither work with two known working CPU's. H81 and H87 Asus boards both, both working i5 4590S and 4460S CPU, boards work fine, CPU's work fine, they just don't work together even with the correct BIOS installed. Screw Asus! Pee Pee machine is going to get an i3 4130 if this seller accepts my low ball otherwise I'll have to just try to snipe a bunch of CPU auctions to score a low ball deal on a non S i5 or a non T i3.

This post has been edited by Bitter: May 30, 2019 - 9:12 PM

[Box]

Turn based strategy and tactical strategy games are some of my favourites.

Aww, guess no one makes anything worth a **** unless you spend a small fortune for a made in Japan Panasonic or Fujitsu. Acer sucks, Dell sucks, HP has sucked, and now apparently Asus sucks. The Fujitsu would still be going if could find a replacement fan for it, but it's so old... Hmmm, maybe if any of the Samsung laptops are made in Korea since their phones have been good short of the whole battery explosion thing they had going there for awhile. Just make a computer out of lemons, potatoes, and an Etch-A-Sketch at this rate.

[Bitter]

Well BattleTech is on sale 40% off currently so that's what I bought, been eyeballing it for a while. Not sure any of your computers can run it though...

[Box]

They're all dead or overheat and die in 10-15 minutes of use, just use for forum and that's it.

[Bitter]

Even the one I sold you? Bummer...

[Box]

Yup, the last time I disappeared before personal reasons was why remember. Oh well, maybe will find the money after selling the Firebird and buying a Miata to get another.