Mini-Box picoPSU-80 80 watt Output 12 volt Input DC-DC Power Supply

Used with Intel D2500CCE mini-ITX in an M 350 Universal ITX case with a 5A 12V power brick and it works great with a 2.5" SATA SSD. As mentioned it is only a 20 pin ATX connector not 24 but the extra 4 pins are redundant 3.3V, 5V, 12V1 and ground. This supply won't put out enough current to need the extra pins and it worked fine on the D2500CCE which has a 24 pin connector. The 150W and 160W picoPSU's have 24 pin connectors and these and everything larger than 80W have 12V Aux connectors if you need them. The unit fits in the M350 case with plenty of space to spare for drives mounted above it. Very little heat is generated and it only draws about 2A off the 12V supply with the system above. Total power draw at the plug is about 15W when not idling according to my Kill-A-Watt meter. Works great in this low power application and seems to have plenty of power to spare.

I used this as a PSU for a mini JAMMA arcade system. It did the job and I've had no issues whatsoever. With anything such as this you have to be mindful of the wattage demands of your project. In total I am drawing no more than 30W max so this satisfied my needs an more. It is powering a 60 in 1 JAMMA and 8 leds.

I swapped the crappy 250W power supply that came with my server's case for this.I am running an N3700-ITX motherboard ("Pentium," which really is just a quad core Atom), 3 WD 3.5 Red drives and an SSD for the system drive. The peak load at startup is around 40W, so this handles it just fine. My system pulls between 12W at idle and around 25W when I'm transferring files to my RAID array, so I"m well within the capacity of this power supply. My idle consumption was at 19W on the old supply, so it's impressive that this is using only 2/3 as much power. Yes, I know that it will take years for it to pay for itself, but that's not my main priority. I like to make sure that any electronics I need to run 24x7 are using as little power as possible. If one selected the right components, I believe that you could easily power a nice i3 system off of this or possibly even a very low power i5.

I am using this to power a Bay Trail motherboard (~15W for the board full tilt), and it has met my expectations. Operation is completely silent. It did come with an adapter that connects to a small connector (on the back side of the unit) to a standard Molex 8981 Drive connector, along with a SATA power connector. I needed to power the CPU with a 4-pin ATX connector, so i did need to purchase an adapter to accomodate this. I am booting over the network, and I did not use the SATA power, but this would be the only available power connector after powering my mini-ITX board, so it's probably not the best solution for powering more than one drive without extra cabling support, and I personally wouldn't want to be drawing a lot of current from the small connector on the supply. The 12V DC power supply needs to be purchased separately, but like most DC connectors, something very near the spec'd size of pin ID/OD will work. This was the supply I used: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0023Y9EQC/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_19

I've purchased this item a while back. The problem I was having right few months after the purchase was that the adapter was getting disconnected from the power supply. Right now, I can't seem to get the pins straight and very difficult to get my server to power off. I constantly have power cycles with it and it just stops working so I have to readjust adapter up until it powers on. I was getting those frequent. Would be great if I could get a replacement because I know those tend to be working well but just had bad experience with the one pin adapter.

It's really hard to calculate your wattage need - my calculations were in the mid/high 60ies so I went for the 80W. For about 2 years this has run a small ITX hypervisor with a small SSD and as much memory as I could put in the very small box. It's worked great but a few times I've found it powered off for no reason what so ever. Last week it gave up powering on. PSU etc. tests just fine outside the motherboard - and everything does turn on for a second or so, so the unit is just too small. I've enjoyed the quiet running for years - if that's important, go for it. But be careful using this for high performance, gaming would be part of that. Add more than just 10-15W buffer to your PSU if you do.

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This little gadget does work, but it is very hard to install. Attaching a tiny pcb to this huge, high insertion force connector is not a good design. I broke some of the capacitors the first time, fortunately, I was able to solder them back on. Be very careful! Note this uses the 20-pin connector, and some motherboards will have a 24-pin connector. It will probably work anyway.

Awesome little PSU. I adapted mine for use inside my Dreamcast as it provides all the necessary voltage rails and is much more efficient and produces less heat than the stock PSU. I removed the edge connector on mine and modified it as such to power the Dreamcast, and it works great, with no noise in the video output at all.

Dump your old PSUs, get this! Would be awesome if there was a case with a hole for the 12VDC connector to go with it, for those of us who use this to replace ancient unreliable flooded with resin original PSUs. (I.e. don't stick it in an existing case)

I gave myself a bit of project for the new year, in revamping my old Dreamcast with a new PSU, fan and GD-Emu drive. This PSU was just the ticket and I felt much more confident buying this than one of the cheaper knock-off picoPSU clones. I used this in combination with a PicoPSU adapter that I picked up on eBay and it made installing this into the Dreamcast a doddle. You will need a good 12V PSU to accompany this, but it's so much smaller and runs cooler than the big Dreamcast PSU board that it replaced. Highly recommended!

Bear in mind the pico 80 is the older bare 20-pin ATX connector without the extra 12v connector (not the full 24 + 4 ATX 2.x as seen in the 160 XT) so it would not be enough to troubleshoot most current motherboards. The barrel jack is also not the standard 9x5.5mm with a 2mm pin, but instead it has somewhat less common 2.6mm pin, Most people would require an adapter or a modified PSU to make it work. It does work though, and is enough to power older systems, and standalone SATA/MOLEX powered devices.

Alimentation achetée pour remplacer un équivalent qui avait un défaut de parasites audible dans les enceintes. Parfaitement silencieuse électriquement parlant. Parfaitement satisfait du produit