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Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking.
#14808012 - 07/22/11 11:00 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hi. Friend and I bought the vapolution Mk2 vaporiser. This one, unlike it's predecessor, it's a lot more user servicable (it has screws rather than plaster in the base). The real clincher is that it runs on 12v. So motorbike batteries, it's wallwart supply, car plugin adaptors, 12v battery packs, any 12v regulated dc supply does the job.
Now, I had a previous molex to round plug adaptor, but the insulation got frayed. I chucked it out, rather than salvaging it. I had some spare parts lying around, and a serendiptious find in the loft scored me a suitable plug. I would have just used the wallwart, but some issues with that
1: No free sockets, I already have six things plugged into one socket. All fairly low drain, but even so.
2: It was a 6v supply
3: This is more cool I suspected that it was the right size, and fortunatly my dad's sony dc supply was in the loft. Compared the two, and yeppers, it's the right fit. So I cut the plug off, striped, twisted the wires together and tinned them, then used some heatshrink to insulate my marvellous solder work, so you don't get to see it.

This is the molex plug. See those white and blue wires? They are on the yellow and black lines. Traditionally on a molex plug, yellow to black is a potential difference of 5 volts. No way near enough high powered enough for.. umm. Highness? Yeah. Let's go with that. So, if you see, the yellow wire goes from right (on the male plug) to left (female plug, the one with blue and white wires coming out).

Here we go, nice innard shot of my low power system (that's an asus AT3ION-T for the curious). As you can see here, it's plugged the "wrong way around". I don't have a molex crimper tool. I got in there with my jeweler screwdrivers, pushing the sticky out spines so I could take the wires out, then use a flatblade to open the spines again so they'll fit nicely when back in the molex plug. I'd like to say right now, that I had a lot of fun pushing those pins back in. It makes a really satisfying "snap".

Another shot. I'm thinking how to get the wire out. In my big thermaltake shark case it's easy, there's holes for external watercooling systems (apart from the zalman reserator, err, what external water cooler?)

Ok, I made a little bodge. You see that top blanking plate? I just bent it slightly and threaded the plug through. I need to think up a more permenant solution (like using some duct tape on the edge the wire rests) so when the wire moves, it wont scrape off insulation.

I'd just like to say, by this point I was getting really impatient, I was tempted to run my system naked, but when I figured you could push back the backplate I felt sooo smug.

This is the backshot. Is it just me, or does it seem pointless to have blanking plates to keep dust out, then has hexagonal holes by the side? That's what the wire looks like coming out.

Just another shot. I couldn't get back there, so I just had the camera pointed and hoped the focus would sort itself out. The number of times it went "Ah ha, focused. Now I'll just zoom out for half a second more and make it blurry"

And here it is, a rather scuffed and battered vaporiser that's been sliding about the floor of my mate's car. Did I mention that one day, he's driving back, drunk and on drugs, and the damn plug for the car adaptor is trailing behind his driver seat for seven miles? I had another round plug connector (no idea where from, maybe it was my one) so now he's got a car adaptor with about three meters of flex on it.
Video of it turning on. I was a bit anxious, as when I threaded the wire through, the plug touched the case, and it insta switched off. I had this doubt in my mind, like when I turned it on, it'd blow everything up, set fire to my room, and open a portal to the deamon realm.
Afaik, that didn't happen.
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: Visionary Tools]
#14808029 - 07/22/11 11:04 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: Visionary Tools]
#14808030 - 07/22/11 11:04 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Traditionally on a molex plug, yellow to black is a potential difference of 5 volts.
Nope, yellow is +12V, red is +5V, black is ground.
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: audiophoenix]
#14808066 - 07/22/11 11:09 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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nice dude, now, stuff and puff
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: Visionary Tools]
#14810496 - 07/22/11 07:17 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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How many watts does it pull?
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: koraks]
#14810740 - 07/22/11 08:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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koraks said:
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Traditionally on a molex plug, yellow to black is a potential difference of 5 volts.
Nope, yellow is +12V, red is +5V, black is ground.
You know, I thought that to. Either way, it was the wrong voltage. I know why, it was a plug for a fan, so it could run at slower speeds. Don't need that with my system. Hottest it's ever got is 47C, that was maximum gpu and cpu usage.
FYI, the vaporiser uses 12 watts. Or, 12VA. I only see current draw go up by an amp when using it.
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: Cosmic fusio]
#14810749 - 07/22/11 08:26 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Cosmic fusio said: nice dude, now, stuff and puff
only got crumbs at the moment and my dealer is looking after her girlfriend. Well, my preffered dealer. The one least likely to drag me into a fucking nazi's house who'll show me his collection of nazi memorabilia and tell me things I just didn't want to know about pakis, then show me human centipede.
I'll just have to go for a bike ride and toke the old fashioned way. Still, this'll be good come wintertimes.
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: Visionary Tools]
#14811226 - 07/22/11 10:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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haha nice man. Weed MacGyver of the 21st century.
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Re: Use your computer power supply for smokeless toking. [Re: cortex]
#14812316 - 07/23/11 06:50 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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give me some weed, and I'll give you a way of getting it into your body. Never let things like lack of skins or lights get in the way.
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