Post by blackknight on May 8, 2010 4:18:55 GMT
First of all, great job!!! Second, there are a lot more 12V wires than on the ATX because several will be dedicated to GPU, HDD, etc. and don't go to ATX. GND=GND regardless of the connector, so it doesn't matter, just that there is one ground wire for each power wire for current balancing. If you connect two power drawing devices on separate rails and use the same ground wire, you have the current from two different power rails going through a wire of the same gauge and that could be bad. It might not be an issue, but I wouldn't risk it. My suggestion would be to save V5 for GPU and V3 for SATA. The rest probably don't matter too much.
I don't really understand what you mean by W/O and C/B. don't all of the wires go to the PCB in the PSU? How do you know if they are W/O or C/B?
You can cut the wires as long as you know how to solder well and make sure you use heat shrink on all wires you solder. I also recommend buying a 24 pin ATX extension cable to work with rather than cutting up a power supply. The advantage is that you'll then have some color-coding rather than the all black wires. You can sleeve them afterward for aesthetics if you want. I've tried pulling the wires out of those Apple connectors and it's near impossible without destroying the locking pins. I actually used one of those power cables as an 8 pin ATX power cable extension and ran it behind the motherboard. All of the cables are straight through. I had to reconfigure the cable as it had two wires missing in the middle of it that I needed and the wires held pretty well even though I yanked them out of the connectors.
I don't really understand what you mean by W/O and C/B. don't all of the wires go to the PCB in the PSU? How do you know if they are W/O or C/B?
You can cut the wires as long as you know how to solder well and make sure you use heat shrink on all wires you solder. I also recommend buying a 24 pin ATX extension cable to work with rather than cutting up a power supply. The advantage is that you'll then have some color-coding rather than the all black wires. You can sleeve them afterward for aesthetics if you want. I've tried pulling the wires out of those Apple connectors and it's near impossible without destroying the locking pins. I actually used one of those power cables as an 8 pin ATX power cable extension and ran it behind the motherboard. All of the cables are straight through. I had to reconfigure the cable as it had two wires missing in the middle of it that I needed and the wires held pretty well even though I yanked them out of the connectors.
