> I was just fooling around with an old discarded PC when it occurred to me that
> these clunkers have a wonderful compact switching power supply (SPS) fan and
> all. I checked 2 PCs. The 220 Watt one can produce 8 amps at +12V and a
> wapping 23 amps at +5V while the other 145 Watt supply produced about half
> that!
>
> Chris Gupta
>
One thing that have to be watched : those power supplies sample the +5V for
voltage regulation.
If you only load the +12V output, the voltage drops a little.
They can be modified to get the feedback voltage from the +12V output, but
will loose the +5V regulation.
---Marcelo Puhlmark@plug-in.com.br