> About Power Supplies - detached, On Sun Sep 12 2004
 
 RT> like to have the power supplies out side of
 RT> the case housing the
 
> Scrap the cases, no need for this way of doing
> things. Get some plywood, does not even have to
> be new, lay out power supply, mobo, floppies,
> hds, cdroms/dvd and that is the size plus a bit
> for playing around. To secure the power supply,
> and floppies etc on the plywood use plumbers
> helper it is a strapping material that holds up
> water pipes and sewer pipes about 1" wide with
> lots of holes in it.
 
> To cool this use a regular house hold fan, If
> you want to stack these you can just put sides
> on this and add about 3-6" over the highest card
> for good air movement.
 
> Relatively simple, cheap and easy. Also takes up
> less desk space or shelf space.
 
 === Interesting. Do you mean one flat piece of
 plywood, something like the old flat desktops
 before tower cases became popular? (But without
 the cover?)
 
 === Just an open design?
 
 === If you do mean a flat piece of plywood, you
 can mount the PS with the fan facing the MB -
 though I don't know how much cooling effect this
 would have on an open design like that.
 
 

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