Greetings! My first post here, and first of many probably since I'm going to be overclocking an Allendale processor, and tweaking memory.
I'm building a few new machines for Christmas, for my family, including new ones for myself and my son. They are going to be dual core (Allendale and Conroe) platforms (leap from P4 3GHz machines), and research and design is singing along nicely.
But one thing I thought about when I was trying to decide on devices, is what to put in, and what PSU to pick to drive them.
So I was wondering, since I have no intention of spending $1000 for a pro device, is there a simple circuit I can build that would go between the PSU and the device to be tested that I can use to test the power load that device is using, during idle, load, etc.? I suck at analog electronics but know a bit about digital, like microcontrollers, serial communications between devices, that sort of thing. I figure that if I can get an analog signal based on that load amount, I can measure that with one of my MCU projects and report that data USB to my bench Linux machine and keep a database of device load data. We have a lot of hardware in my house, with three kids and my needs, our LAN client population has ballooned to eight machines. I have a lot of spare hardware, or will have when I do this mass upgrade.
I know this is a bit off the wall. I hope I posted in the right forum.
Thanks!
Hop
I'm building a few new machines for Christmas, for my family, including new ones for myself and my son. They are going to be dual core (Allendale and Conroe) platforms (leap from P4 3GHz machines), and research and design is singing along nicely.
But one thing I thought about when I was trying to decide on devices, is what to put in, and what PSU to pick to drive them.
So I was wondering, since I have no intention of spending $1000 for a pro device, is there a simple circuit I can build that would go between the PSU and the device to be tested that I can use to test the power load that device is using, during idle, load, etc.? I suck at analog electronics but know a bit about digital, like microcontrollers, serial communications between devices, that sort of thing. I figure that if I can get an analog signal based on that load amount, I can measure that with one of my MCU projects and report that data USB to my bench Linux machine and keep a database of device load data. We have a lot of hardware in my house, with three kids and my needs, our LAN client population has ballooned to eight machines. I have a lot of spare hardware, or will have when I do this mass upgrade.
I know this is a bit off the wall. I hope I posted in the right forum.
Thanks!
Hop