Looking for an extra psu, ~60 watts, just molex connectors

[Kaido]

I need a small PSU to power two hard drives and a DVD burner, minimum 60 watts. It needs to have two or three molex connectors and has to be able to run without a motherboard connection. Any suggestions?

 

[JSFLY]

so are you a surgeon or a ninja? Or a surgeon ninja?

This one is decent:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182001

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: JSFLY
so are you a surgeon or a ninja? Or a surgeon ninja?

This one is decent:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182001

Ninja, duh 🙂

Holy cheapness batman! Will that power up without being connected to a motherboard though?

 

[PingSpike]

I've ripped several powersupplies out of external SCSI enclosures to just run my fans (never completed the install becaues I couldn't think of a good way to mount the second power cord plug into my case) but they all seem to be about 20-30watts. I saw a brick for sale on another forum once that was like a 60watt AC adaptor with a molex connector coming out of one end. Alas it was sold.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I've ripped several powersupplies out of external SCSI enclosures to just run my fans (never completed the install becaues I couldn't think of a good way to mount the second power cord plug into my case) but they all seem to be about 20-30watts. I saw a brick for sale on another forum once that was like a 60watt AC adaptor with a molex connector coming out of one end. Alas it was sold.

Nice! I'm trying to find the smallest PSU I can. I'm taking an old Apple G4 tower (the shiny ones!) and putting a modded Intel Mini into it. The Mini will be connected to a Raptor 150, Seagate 400gb, and DVD burner, but I need a way to power those three drives, which total about 50 watts between them. I figure 60 watts to be on the safe side. I just need two or three molex connectors, or one molex and two SATA power connectors.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I've ripped several powersupplies out of external SCSI enclosures to just run my fans (never completed the install becaues I couldn't think of a good way to mount the second power cord plug into my case) but they all seem to be about 20-30watts. I saw a brick for sale on another forum once that was like a 60watt AC adaptor with a molex connector coming out of one end. Alas it was sold.

Nice! I'm trying to find the smallest PSU I can. I'm taking an old Apple G4 tower (the shiny ones!) and putting a modded Intel Mini into it. The Mini will be connected to a Raptor 150, Seagate 400gb, and DVD burner, but I need a way to power those three drives, which total about 50 watts between them. I figure 60 watts to be on the safe side. I just need two or three molex connectors, or one molex and two SATA power connectors.

If you're handy with a soldering iron (or just splicing wires), you could probably get a 5V and 12V AC adapter and wire them to 4-pin "molex" leads.

Something like this would give you 80W@+12V. You also need a +5V source (although at lower power output) for the drives, unless you can find a power supply/adapter that has both +5V and +12V outputs (but multi-output models tend to be expensive if you need more than a few amps).