Re: GSOS Problems

[aw133@lafn.org (James Poore)]

In a previous article, nugundam@netcom.com (Joseph Lee) says:

>How much better is this Buggie power supply?  I'm working off my stock
>supply now after I fried my Pegasus one.  So far, with a Zip, VOC, 6mb
>GS-Ram+, RAMFast, things have been pretty stable (minus the regular crashes
>in the Zip when if fails to execute some instruction).
>-- 
Well...IMHO, bigger is better but up to a point.  Good rule of thumb in 
switching power supplies is to have double availiable power of the 
worst-case senario (i.e. highest power draw).  Switchers of a higher 
power rating have a tendency to reduce the severity of power-line 
abberations, have better regulation and will hold power longer in brief 
(less than 1 sec) outages.  One other factor which is a big plus as far 
as the computer is concerned, is the heat factor.  The Buggie supply (or 
any PC style supply) will be external to the GS and will cut the heat 
down immensely which will also aid in keeping the computer from certain 
crashes.

Jim

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