[CUBE] DC board, external devices

[Riba]

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Christopher Hack wrote:

> Am following with interest the discussion on fried DC boards because of
> faster power-hungry processors. A question. There are many external 
> devices
> on the market (firewire USB etc) that are powered from the cube such 
> as hard
> drives and CDRWs. Is there any danger of using too many of these 
> causing the
> same problem?

The DC board supplies the required 5V and 12V DC for the Cube 
internals. That includes all the internal drives, and definitely 
firewire and USB ports. So yes, any external device powered from the 
cube puts additional load on th DC board.
The exception are ADC displays, they draw their power directly from the 
external power supply brick.