DigitalDoc 5....possible uses?

[Bluefront]

What happened to the text of this post? It disappeared....

Anyway, I was wondering what people have been doing with these things. Looks like they could be setup to turn on lites, fans, trip relays to work exterior stuff....neat looking device.

 

[Mallow]

I have a digidoc5 and I use it to control my cathod tubes, fans and read the temperature @ 5 different spots in my case (including the die of the chip) ^_^ It's a freakin' awesome addon. Want to mod the back light to blue sometime, instead of stock orange 😛

 

[Jeff7]

I bought one cheap on the FS forum, and I guess it just wasn't for me. Keeping track of which wire measures what was a bit tough. Plus, I work in my case a bit too often to make having all those extra wires running all over the place practical. Navigating the menus with the few buttons on the thing was a bit tough too; some kind of hookup to let it be configured via a software interface could be really awesome though.
As I said though, it could be really great depending on the user's preferences. I'd probably be fine with one of those Compunurse things - just the single LCD temp readout. Of course, I no longer have any 5.25" bays available anyway. DVD drive, CD-RW, HDD (internal 3.5" bays are all full), and a NewQ Platinum Eqaulizer.😀

 

[Czar]

I bought one almost two years ago, I mostly use it just for the temperture readings, though I have probably around 6 fans connected to it. The problems I see are the fsking beeps, if you get a voltage spike you get a fsking beep if the rpm of the fans goes below something you get a fsking beep, and that sucks when you dont have a clue what is causing the voltage spike or that the digital doc cant read the rpm of the fans correctly or that I'm using fans that are just hoovering around the lowest rpm speed the digital doc thinks is acceptable.

It looks very cool though 🙂