Phanteks power combo adaptor for using 2psus

[sam_816]

Phanteks announced their power combo peripheral

http://www.phanteks.com/PH-PWCOB.html

From the site:

Phanteks’ patented Power Combo is design to maximize your power output by allowing you to connect two power supplies. Higher end power supply can cost a fortune, but the Power Combo is cost efficient and provides maximum power and efficiency. With the ability to combine two power supplies, the Power Combo can give you a higher maximum power output than all the power supplies in the market while still maintaining stability and performance. A true plug and play, the Power Combo requires no cutting and splicing of the wires.

Features:



Safe and Secure

Redundant power supply architecture concept, this prevents the system from shutting down when one power supply fails. This ensures that all your vital information and data will not be interrupted or lost.



Power Efficient

The power combo can acquire higher power efficiency through load sharing of 2 PSU's. 2 PSU's will operate under more efficient load compared to a single PSU that would be under full load.

 

[MrTeal]

Phanteks announced their power combo peripheral

http://www.phanteks.com/PH-PWCOB.html

From the site:

Phanteks’ patented Power Combo is design to maximize your power output by allowing you to connect two power supplies. Higher end power supply can cost a fortune, but the Power Combo is cost efficient and provides maximum power and efficiency. With the ability to combine two power supplies, the Power Combo can give you a higher maximum power output than all the power supplies in the market while still maintaining stability and performance. A true plug and play, the Power Combo requires no cutting and splicing of the wires.

Features:



Safe and Secure

Redundant power supply architecture concept, this prevents the system from shutting down when one power supply fails. This ensures that all your vital information and data will not be interrupted or lost.



Power Efficient

The power combo can acquire higher power efficiency through load sharing of 2 PSU's. 2 PSU's will operate under more efficient load compared to a single PSU that would be under full load.

That's.... interesting. How do they ensure load sharing on a PSU not designed for it if one PSU has a couple hundred mV higher 12V rail?
Not really sure how it would provide the claimed redundancy either, since it's not combining PCIe power and SATA power connections. Your motherboard might stay powered, but I don't think Windows will appreciate having your GPUs and drives drop out if the power supply trips.

 

[thesmokingman]

Another product no one asked for?

A dual psu jump cable is all that's needed in reality.

 

[cbrunny]

I wonder if you could hack this a bit and use it to splice one psu to power two computers. Just use it in reverse. You'd have to change the connectors but assuming that's possible... I guess most likely one psu probably doesn't have the capability...

In reality, I think this is a product for people that are open to trying multiple PSU's but have no interest in risking anything. Or that don't have a clue what they're doing. Or are following Austin's lead from Linus' Scrapyard Wars 3.

 

[thesmokingman]

I wonder if you could hack this a bit and use it to splice one psu to power two computers. Just use it in reverse. You'd have to change the connectors but assuming that's possible... I guess most likely one psu probably doesn't have the capability...

In reality, I think this is a product for people that are open to trying multiple PSU's but have no interest in risking anything. Or that don't have a clue what they're doing. Or are following Austin's lead from Linus' Scrapyard Wars 3.

I cringe at the thought of putting some 3rd party into the power chain when the shit hits the fan and juice gets sent to the wrong place then sparks fly.

 

[MrTeal]

I wonder if you could hack this a bit and use it to splice one psu to power two computers. Just use it in reverse. You'd have to change the connectors but assuming that's possible... I guess most likely one psu probably doesn't have the capability...

In reality, I think this is a product for people that are open to trying multiple PSU's but have no interest in risking anything. Or that don't have a clue what they're doing. Or are following Austin's lead from Linus' Scrapyard Wars 3.

How would you power them on and off?

Edit: Having one ATX power supply feed multiple rigs could actually be quite useful in certain situations like coin mining. However given what they'd probably want for this, it's probably better to just buy one of the cheap decent branded ~400W units when they go on sale for $20 AR.

 

[sam_816]

I think this product makes sense for small PC cases where 2 sfx power supplies can be used as there might not be enough space (at one place) to put one big psu. Like if someone wants furyx2 in smaller cube case and use 2 Silverstone 600w sfx psus. I will research if I can use 2 flat psus used in evga hadron case to make better use of the space in a case I am designing...

 

[Stuka87]

Another product no one asked for?

A dual psu jump cable is all that's needed in reality.

You can't just plug two PSU's in together and expect it work correctly. Yes you can easily turn two PSUs on, and have on power say, just the drives or fans. But you cannot have them plug into anything that has a common rail, like say, a pair of GPUs.

 

[MrTeal]

You can't just plug two PSU's in together and expect it work correctly. Yes you can easily turn two PSUs on, and have on power say, just the drives or fans. But you cannot have them plug into anything that has a common rail, like say, a pair of GPUs.

You can't plug them into things that have common rails, but thankfully the PCIe power inputs on GPUs aren't simply commoned with the 12V PCIe slot power. I have many GPUs with the 6/8-pin plugs powered from a separate PSU.