Quote from: psyberwolf on September 29, 2013, 01:35:42 PM

i have a bit of a strange question, sorry if it has already been asked before.

wanted to know if one of these boards can be run some other way other than a molex connector (e.g. some kind of laptop plugpack or something)

reason for me asking is that i have only 1 blade on order - i currently run my usb farm off raspberry pi's (i have a very power inefficient AMD pc so like to leave it off during the day), rather than having to use my pc i would like to run the blade of my Rasp Pi and somehow power it from a different source other than molex.

i guess it all depends on what kind of voltages and power i need to this board, im taking a rough guess with 8 chips (usb ones=500mah x 8 = 4amp). as an example if it only needed the 5v line i could use the following laptop psu which is 10A http://www.adafruit.com/products/658.

im happy to hack together a psu from a laptop or something to power this thing, just wanted to know if its possible.

Thanks,
Brendan.

You can buy them for external devices,

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&tag=wasd-20&field-keywords=external%20molex%20power%20ac%20adapter