I’m undertaking a project that integrates a 17.1" Touchscreen LCD, Midibox64 implementation, PC and Traktor DJ Studio all into one neat and tidy portable flightcase. ;D
Theory is that the HDD places the load on the power supply, so providing I used one of the molex connectors that is on the “chain” with the HDD I should be OK to get the power I need?
Space inside the case is at a premium, so I’d like to avoid putting another transformer in there…
i think some people have tried using switched psu’s to power midibox lc and it didn’t work too well…
but the other day in a shop i saw a usb port and power connector together in a 3.5" drive bay…
i don’t know if that’s really significant and i’m not much of an expert
i guess the thing might be to check that you’re getting a stable 5v from the power line and try powering the core for a while to see if it works (or if it melts and catches fire
Yes there have been trouble with switching PSUs but also examples where they ran perfectly (example: TK’s LC is running on a switching PSU). (… I couldn’t find the thread)
The sometimes occuring problems are in the 5V supply for the core… not the supply for the MF-Board.
About the power you need depends on how much you draw … how many LEDs, LCD backlights etc.
I’d like to say midibox, but alas it’s for the PC.
The original plan was to run the whole of Traktor DJ Studio through the touchscreen, but I ran into difficulty trying to control two parameters at once using the touchscreen!
I toyed with re-wiring two phatboy midi controllers with a midi merger and it worked really well - so the plan was hatched to build a “proper” midi interface using TK’s MIOS.
