Constructing A Low-Power 2U Wireless Rack-Box

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 6, 2004 @04:13PM from the every-household-needs-one dept.

adelayde writes "Recently we decided to build ourselves a custom rack-mountable box that we could use as a web and DNS caching proxy and which would offer flexible wireless networking facilities and have an uniterruptible power supply. The result was a 2U rack-box with dual wireless networks built upon a low-power Via EPIA MiniITX motherboard. The box has two wireless networks built in with external antenna connectors, locking switches on the front to avoid tampering, a battery to give at least 20 mins of autonomous operation, a low wattage power supply and most importantly lots of blue LEDs :)"

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insufficient! by ALLXSTHINGS · 2004-06-06 16:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"MCT7806CT 6V Regulator 1.5A Out ... Capacitor 25Vdc 2200uF 324-5212 0.93 each Capacitor 35Vdc, 0.1uF 221-8584 0.13 each Capacitor 35V, 1uF ... 2 x Resistor, 0.5W, 5%, 100" Anybody with a minor background in electrical engineering could tell you that the above equipment isn't about to get along well together. I hope they don't kill themselves.
1. Re:insufficient! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-06 16:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  Bullshit.
  
  Care to point out why you think that?
  
  The regulator might be strained initially, but apart from that, what?