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by HammerSandwich
Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:32 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Seasonic S2FC discussion
Replies: 6
Views: 4973

Seasonic S2FC discussion

Some of what I wish to cover has been mentioned in various places, but I'd like us to consolidate all relevant information about S2FC within the Super Silencer family in this topic. The same basic information should translate to the Super Tornado family as well, but I don't believe we should try to ...
by HammerSandwich
Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:17 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Seasonic Super Tornado 400W PSU reviewed
Replies: 16
Views: 7289

Drewscriver wrote:FYI, I got the tornado at lillicomputers.net They got posted a while ago, and they are the only ones I've seen that have a full line of Seasonic supplies...
Axion has almost the complete line, and the prices are a little lower.
by HammerSandwich
Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:42 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Quietest floppy drive
Replies: 20
Views: 7715

Zyzzyx wrote:Yup, but about half the time I'm rebooting its to boot off the floppy to run MemTest86.
See the bootable ISO.
by HammerSandwich
Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:22 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: which grommets from mcmaster?
Replies: 34
Views: 20178

I have Sorbothane as well. I'll compare and report as soon as I can get some shock cord. Just tried, actually, but Ace ain't the place.
by HammerSandwich
Sat Nov 08, 2003 10:56 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: I might have a line on SATA Spinpoints in the US
Replies: 53
Views: 21398

Directron has the PATA version for $107, strangely $3 less than the 2mb version...
by HammerSandwich
Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:51 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: which grommets from mcmaster?
Replies: 34
Views: 20178

"...They come in bags of 500 pcs for $106/bag with a minimum order of only 3 bags" Let's see: $318 divided by how many SPCR forum members? :) Thanks for taking the initiative, Ralf. BTW, I just got 95% of the McMaster order I placed yesterday, and that was with UPS ground. I'll be playing with the ...
by HammerSandwich
Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:19 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: which grommets from mcmaster?
Replies: 34
Views: 20178

Looks like the one to start with (matches the dimensions of the EAR shoulder bolt shoulder the closest) is the number 8491A596 . It's 5/16" OD (.312") x 1/4" long (.250") X .125" ID. This will fit over the screw and into the EAR 410 grommet just fine but is about .020" too long. Huh? The SB-4102 sh...
by HammerSandwich
Thu Nov 06, 2003 4:34 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: which grommets from mcmaster?
Replies: 34
Views: 20178

First off, we should probably include this link. Shoulder bolt info is linked at the bottom... But looking at the listing for those bolts, it looks like the threaded length is about 2mm, (it lists two numbers 0.215cm and 0.185cm), including the shoulder length of about 3mm, it looks like the correct...
by HammerSandwich
Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:07 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: which grommets from mcmaster?
Replies: 34
Views: 20178

Re: thanks

Liquidated wrote:now of course looking at the EAR site I notice they have dedicated shoulder bolts for this.

grrr mcmaster is too big to find those.
AFAI can tell, McMaster doesn't carry the shoulder bolts. Does anyone have a supplier for them?

TIA
by HammerSandwich
Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:36 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: IBM SFF S50.....passive cooled 3.2 P4.
Replies: 14
Views: 12691

Ralf Hutter wrote:I put my Kill-a-watt on my P4 3.0C system... and the full load was 174W.

The thing idles (surfing the web, word processing, light Photshop etc) at 75-80W.
Are those numbers for AC power?