Quick electrical question

**MrMelon** · 15th August 2006, 15:05

The drive enclosure has its own power switch on it so that's not a problem. I'm sure I can make up a little foam filled compartment for it to sit in.

I don't need anything that fits in my hand, its for use in my car! A 300gb 3.5" ide drive is about $150, the biggest 2.5" drive you can get is around 160gb and they're over $400... It wasn't a hard decision to go for the 3.5" enclosure!

**bungbung** · 15th August 2006, 15:18

The 1A regulators would cope with an overload for the duration of the spinning up, come to think of it, you would be best to run the requlators in parallel:

Without measuring the spinup current, it would be safer to use the adjustable 3A versions instead, they will require a few extra components.

**sAsLEX** · 15th August 2006, 15:19

12V supply to two seperate VR's like I linked to then you have a 12V up to 3A and a 5 Volt up to 3 A as well.

**MrMelon** · 15th August 2006, 16:07

Cheers for the help guys.

I'll try running the 12v line unregulated and just regulate the 5v 3A one first and see how that works. Might pay to put the old 4 gig drive I don't care about in for the testing though!

**aff-man** · 15th August 2006, 16:16

this what you sorta looking at?
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.sto...uct/View/H3490
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.sto...uct/View/Z6561

**Wasp** · 15th August 2006, 17:09

Originally Posted by MrMelon

I don't need anything that fits in my hand, its for use in my car! A 300gb 3.5" ide drive is about $150, the biggest 2.5" drive you can get is around 160gb and they're over $400... It wasn't a hard decision to go for the 3.5" enclosure!

And your going to listen to all 300gbs of music everyday? (i hope for your sake its REALLY high quality music

Helps if you work for a company that deals in laptops