8' drive on PC troubleshooting

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Wai-Sun Chia" <waisun.chia at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 10:36 PM
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:09:01 -0500, Dave Dunfield <dave04a at dunfield.com> 
> wrote:
>> All the discussion on stacking two PC supplies and cutting
>> grounds to try and keep them isolated seems like asking
>> for trouble....
>
> Asking for trouble is correct.
> After all, to get 24V and I don't think a typical 8" drive will
> surpass 1A anyway, a LM317 plus a couple of passives and a small
> transformer is  more than enough to do the job. If you get the LM317K,
> then it'll even do up till 1.5A provided you give it an
> appropriately-sized heatsink.
>
> /wai-sun


SA800's require 1.7A on the 24v line.

Randy