Poll: What PSU Setup are you using

**eleventh** · 03-25-2005, 12:55 PM

Epia 10k
M1-atx

**turbochris** · 03-25-2005, 01:47 PM

$20 lawn tractor battery isolated by a $5 30A relay powering a $39 400W inverter which powers a free 120 watt computer power supply. Works great, immune to crank, cheap, it wont drain the main battery if the computer stays on too long, it's nice to have a 110V outlet in the dash, and when I want to work on the carputer in the garage I just unplug it from the inverter and plug it into an extension cord. Now I know this setup is inefficient and that troubled me very badly. I crunched all the numbers and this gross inefficiency affected my gas mileage! My actual miles per gallon went down by .000173% or in actual distance, a whole three quarters of an inch! I can live with that.

**Zebelkhan** · 03-25-2005, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by turbochris

...this gross inefficiency affected my gas mileage! My actual miles per gallon went down by .000173% or in actual distance, a whole three quarters of an inch!

Shame on you...

**Stray** · 03-25-2005, 05:12 PM

And again:
Epia M10000
M1-ATX

**eCar™** · 03-26-2005, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by turbochris

$20 lawn tractor battery isolated by a $5 30A relay powering a $39 400W inverter which powers a free 120 watt computer power supply. Works great, immune to crank, cheap, it wont drain the main battery if the computer stays on too long, it's nice to have a 110V outlet in the dash, and when I want to work on the carputer in the garage I just unplug it from the inverter and plug it into an extension cord. Now I know this setup is inefficient and that troubled me very badly. I crunched all the numbers and this gross inefficiency affected my gas mileage! My actual miles per gallon went down by .000173% or in actual distance, a whole three quarters of an inch! I can live with that.

Wow, that is some horrible gas mileage you are getting, if .000173% is equal to 3/4".