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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2907)	10/13/1998 4:15:00 PM
From: pae	Respond to of 14778

PC power supplies to run external peripherals How do you know you have amps to burn from your power supply? I am curious about mine but have no clue how to determine. I would expect any Radio Shack to have the DC plugs to the peripherals, as well as a spool of two conductor power cord, but I'm not familiar with the hardware to connect to the power supply. The RS clerks are kind of hit or miss: if you think they oughta have something - keep looking no matter what they tell you. And just when you think they are all useless, you'll stumble on one who answers your questions accurately before you ask them! P.S. Hi guys, long time no post! Evidently I'm trying to take even longer than SW to go from proposal to actually buying the system. Anybody got recent recommendations on where to buy rather than pay 10 different shipping charges? Thanks. I like aberdeen's selection, but am not impressed with all prices. P.P.S. Is it possible to pick video cards for a current Win98 multiple monitor setup that might be compatible with WinNT 5.0 multiple monitors down the road? (This may be a parameter that needs to be dropped from the optimization in order to encourage a solution to occur in real time.) Cheers!

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2907)	10/13/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Dave, I have done this in the lab before but never on my personal equipment. Make sure that the devices truely use 5V DC or 12VDC though. There are many devices which use 12V AC and have an internal bridge rectifier. Sean