How do I hotwire a psu? Please reply

aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
edited February 2005 in Hardware
Exactly as the title say i need to hotwire a psu if anyone knows tell me...


thanks

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  • rapturerapture
    edited February 2005
    Short the green wire with any black wire. Large paper clips snipped in half always work for me...

    Oh yeah and if you die, its not my fault...
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Haha. He's correct, and I share his sentiment. If you die, we will disavow all knowledge of your existence and this post.
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited February 2005
    thanks guys now i can post some pics of the Half Life case all lit up
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    man i am tempted to delete this thread but lol it could be funny
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited February 2005
    Actually I just finished hotwiring it and it worked! And no I didn't kill myself. Ill post the pics as soon as their uploaded

    Heres the Half Life Computer Glowed Up

    http://www.msnusers.com/HalfLifeComputerAllGlowedUp/shoebox.msnw\

    Tell me what you think
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2005
    Don't run it like that for too long; power supplies are meant to be under a load, and it can be bad for them if they're not from what I've heard. Whether that's true or not... *shrugs* but resistors are so cheap it doesn't really matter. Pick up a 5 ohm, 5w (or larger) resistor, and a 6.8 ohm, 25w (or larger) resistor. Also get a cable of some kind, something like this: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductdesc.asp?description=12-189-002&depa=0

    What kind of cable it is doesn't matter, as long as it has a female 4 pin molex connector on it so you can connect it to the power supply. solder the 5 ohm resistor onto the +5v wire and the ground wire, heatshrinking over the leads so that you can't short anything out. Do the same with the 6.8 ohm between the +12v and ground. Hook that up to one of the drive leads on the PSU and you can run it without a computer with much less risk of damaging it. :)
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited February 2005
    Think you can explain what i should do more clearly you kinda lost me after ohm
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    All he is trying to say is don't leave the psu on without hooking parts to it. the lights that you have probably fine, it won't go blowing up on ya but don't go leaving it on for hours at a time with out hardware attatched.
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited February 2005
    Well it hasnt failed me yet and it's was on for about 6 hours so I dont know if this is just for high power psu's because it's only a 235w
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited February 2005
    Zuntar wrote:
    All he is trying to say is don't leave the psu on without hooking parts to it. the lights that you have probably fine, it won't go blowing up on ya but don't go leaving it on for hours at a time with out hardware attatched.

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're gonna leave it running for a while, it would be a good idea to put it under some kind of load. Doesn't have to be a big one, just a few watts. What I was suggesting is that you build one of these (see attached pic).

    If you decide to build one of these things, you'll need the following:
    -1x 6.8 ohm, 25w (or larger) resistor
    -1x 5 ohm, 10w (or larger) resistor
    -1x power connector of some kind with a 4 pin female molex connector (like -the kind you find on hard drives and optical drives) such as a 4 pin "Y" splitter or an extension cable
    -a bit of heatshrink tubing
    -some rosin core solder
    -a soldering iron

    Then you just hook up the resistors the way its shown in the picture...
    the 6.8 ohm connects to the +12v and one of the ground wires, the 5 ohm connects to the +5v and the other ground wire.
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited February 2005
    Intersting. I don't think im gonna need it cuz im not gonna leave it on for great periods of time. Just to show friends and stuff. Cool stuff there tho. Thanks for the tip. I might use it if I do a dual psu on that case. Its big enough.
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