The HP DL380 G5 (like many rack servers) has no AMP Mate-n-Lok connector available to attach to a card that needs more power than the PCI bus can provide, like the TDM400P when FXS modules are used. HP has confirmed that there is no part they sell to give you such a connector, and Digium says their business edition folks got it to work, but only by doing nasty warranty-voiding things to the internal wiring. Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Something along the lines of an external power brick whose output attaches to a backplane slot and gives you a 12V connector inside the server? Or am I just SOL? Thanks -- j. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070305/789e1079/attachment.htm
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:54 -0500, James FitzGibbon wrote:> The HP DL380 G5 (like many rack servers) has no AMP Mate-n-Lok > connector available to attach to a card that needs more power than the > PCI bus can provide, like the TDM400P when FXS modules are used. HP > has confirmed that there is no part they sell to give you such a > connector, and Digium says their business edition folks got it to > work, but only by doing nasty warranty-voiding things to the internal > wiring. > > Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Something along the lines > of an external power brick whose output attaches to a backplane slot > and gives you a 12V connector inside the server? > > Or am I just SOL? > > ThanksIt was exactly because of this (voiding garantee on a bunch of DL380-G4) that i had to advice to expand their Aterisk-configuration with either: 1) ordinary desktop with one or more TDM's 2) multiport ata's 3) T1 + channelbanks -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org)
On 3/5/07, James FitzGibbon <james.fitzgibbon@gmail.com> wrote:> > Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Something along the lines of > an external power brick whose output attaches to a backplane slot and gives > you a 12V connector inside the server? >Since i posted my original request I stumbled across this: http://www.coolerguys.com/840556029977.html They say it's custom made for them, and I certainly can't find anything else like it after several hours of searching, but it seems to be what's required. I'll have to rig up a backplate with a cutout to get the 12V connector into the case, but other than that I'm hoping it will do the trick. -- j. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070305/4466f291/attachment.htm