Stand Alone Power Supply?

[nyplayer]

I am looking for a power supply that does not need to be attached to a mother board to work. I need it to power Hard Drives only and not mother board... is this possible?. I have spare power supplies is there a way to get those to work without a motherboard?

[Fuzzy]

There is a pin on the ATX header (Pin 14 - PS_ON, usually a green wire) that is jumpered to ground (Any of the black wires) to turn the power supply on. This is how the motherboard 'controls' it. You can just as easily jumper this wire, and it will be on whenever plugged in.

[blade]

Here is a picture of which pins to jumper. Of course you can come up with something better than the paperclip shown in the example.

[nyplayer]

Thanks guys that was quick. Will give it a try as soon as I insulate myself LOL

[jptheripper]

instead of just jumpering, is there a way to wire it to another power supply so that they come on together?

[big poppa pump]

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=21193

[Fuzzy]

Yeah, if you know something about electronics, you can use a relay that is triggered off the 12V or 5V output of the 'primary' power supply, to turn on the secondary power supply (by closing contacts in place of that jumper).

EDIT: Or buy the adapter in the previous post.. ;-)

[PhilH]

Originally Posted by big poppa pump

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=21193

I have this exact product in my WHS box. It works great. I have a Corsair 650TX running the Dual Xeon board & a few drives & a Corsair 550 running the remainder of the drives. Couldn't be happier..

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by PhilH

I have this exact product in my WHS box. It works great. I have a Corsair 650TX running the Dual Xeon board & a few drives & a Corsair 550 running the remainder of the drives. Couldn't be happier..

What are you powering the extra air conditioner with?

[PhilH]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

What are you powering the extra air conditioner with?

lol

[big poppa pump]

Originally Posted by PhilH

I have this exact product in my WHS box. It works great. I have a Corsair 650TX running the Dual Xeon board & a few drives & a Corsair 550 running the remainder of the drives. Couldn't be happier..

I got mine with the original Cooler Master Stacker STC-01. I use this to connect 2 Antec PSU's, one Quattro 850 and a TP-650. Run a total of 28 hdd's with both the PSU's combined.

[PhilH]

Originally Posted by big poppa pump

I got mine with the original Cooler Master Stacker STC-01. I use this to connect 2 Antec PSU's, one Quattro 850 and a TP-650. Run a total of 28 hdd's with both the PSU's combined.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who believes in plenty of PSU power in servers. I've had too many hard drives lost due to only relying on a single power supply.