5 Sep
2008
5 Sep
'08
4:19 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:16 -0400, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Thursday 04 September 2008, Tony Duell wrote:
And why is this a problem? It's hardly going to be a portable device,
is it?
Tony, your reasoning sounds like what IBM uses to decide how much
something should weigh.
They're about the only company I know of that takes a 1900lb rack of
machines, and then puts another 200lbs of steel plates on the bottom to
add weight. (IBM SP frames)
Now that I think about it, I'm surprised that I don't yet have a bad
back thanks to my IBM gear.
Of course, having 100kg of ballast in the bottom does give you the
rather handy feature of making the rack not tip over and kill you when
you pull a machine at the top...
Gordon
For a few bucks, you could get a 5 Volt transformer
with a decent
current rating of 10 Amps, and not have to worry about the number
of tubes you need to feed for a while.
Filament transformers come in many voltages other than 6.3.
Ya, it would be more authentic but the filament supply would then
weigh 20 lbs instead of 2.