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Title: Computer in car....
Post by: Haystack on November 23, 2004, 05:56:21 PM
The neg is notted with a - through it.
up and down on the right side are 1-10 and 11-20 on the left.
I Have actually accompilished all of the things need to correctally set up a computer in a car. I have sucessfully splice 5.1 from a computer to a car radio,  set a computer to work on a regular tv monitor(using tv out)and got a wirelss mouse and keyboard. The only thing that I am stuck on is the power supply. Does anyone know what voltage the ground is run on?. I am thinking that it has to be 3.3v because I cannot find a 3.3v neg. wire. Also what voltage is the power okay and power supply on voltage run at?  This is just a quick imitation of the info that I have right now.
Title: Re: Computer in car....
Post by: Haystack on November 25, 2004, 12:55:20 AM
Any one anywhere? :brick:
Title: Re: Computer in car....
Post by: Haystack on December 02, 2004, 12:41:43 AM
would it help any if I mentioned that this is the 20-pin power supply connector to the mother board. I just need to know what voltage to run the ground at.
Title: Re: Computer in car....
Post by: Nate on December 02, 2004, 01:46:31 AM
have you tryed contacting the faq for the motherboard, or even the maker of the box that the power supply came in? i dont know any numbers off hand. the only thing i can think of besides that is hook it up in the computer and use a meter to find out.
Title: Re: Computer in car....
Post by: 1986Tbird on December 02, 2004, 06:10:04 PM
I remember doing something like this once, well at least just the plans for it. But I was quickly told by many car audio people that I would need a DC-DC inverter because a computer power supply supply much cleaner power than can be found in a car and the voltage spikes and such that are present in a car can damage the motherboard and other components like hard drives.
 
  PS www.mp3car.com (http://"http://www.mp3car.com") is a whole site dedicated to what you are trying to do. They even sell everything you need to do it.
Title: Re: Computer in car....
Post by: Haystack on December 04, 2004, 02:01:47 AM
I was going to use multipul voltage regulators on the 12 volts. Thanks alot for the site... I just found a opus power supply last night.
Title: Re: Computer in car....
Post by: Haystack on January 19, 2005, 05:12:07 PM
well here are some of the mini tix computer sites that I have come acrossed. you guys really ought to check them out. sorry to bring back a 6 month old thread.
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
http://indashpc.org/index.html
http://stores.ebay.com/Audioforge-VIA-Mini-Itx-Car-PC_W0QQsspagenameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm
http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/mini-itx/car-pc.jsp