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  1. 03-19-2002, 10:52 AM #1
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    Chopping a Sproggy

    Any one think of any reason I can't cut a 2.6 Sproggy in half and join the traces with wire?

    I've got a 2.5 running at the moment, with a laptop drive. The laptop drive has decided it doesn't want to play any more, so I'm thinking of replacing it with a standard 3.5" drive. To do this, I need a short, fat power supply, not a long thin one.

    If I cut a pcb down the middle (between the 787 and 745, just to the left of the LED), and join the 6 cut tracks with 1" of wire, I could bend the psu in half, have a double-layer one, about 85mm long.

    I'll mount this with all the TO220 parts bolted to the bottom of the case - use the whole aluminium box as the heatsink.

    Before I do this and blow the whole lot up, could anyone point out the silly things i've probably overlooked...
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  2. 03-19-2002, 12:20 PM #2
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    I can see any reason why this would cause any problems, as long as you use nice thick wires, and be carefull to connect everything up correctly. But it might be a fair bit easier to built a custom PCB.

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  3. 03-19-2002, 12:31 PM #3
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    maybe, but i've got everything I need to chop the sproggy up already here. I haven't got the time or patience to redo to pcb.

    Even easier than that would be a slightly bigger case. I'll do some measuring in a while, see if I can fit anything in better.
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