[Wizard] Heat and Power

[Mike Fineberg]

I recently had my Wizard sitting on for about a day or two (just idling, early on I was dumping mp3s onto it), when I opened it... the heat was a bit more than I expected.  Has anyone else noted the significant heat build up? (not to dangerous levels, but still painful to touch - it was just idling).

I've done some bending of the cables to completely uncover the heatsink/spreader, I'll see how that goes. (unfortunatly, no proper temp. measuring devices are on hand)

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For those of you with Compaq iPAQs or similar with an car power adapter, these little cigerette lighter adapters are a 10V-30V 1.5A DC to 5V 2A DC.  Slightly wrong plug size, but that is fixable.
The 8250s are rated at 8 watts (8w/5v=1.6A), the HDD at 0.5A. That gives you a total of 2.1A at peak... it MIGHT be a viable solution to those of you looking for a handy (!=cheap) car adapter.

I'm not entirely sure what Nokia phone's take in, I -think- it's 5V DC, but the amperage on their PSUs/car adapters are way too low for our purposes. (~500mA)

I am currently looking at some biscuit PC suppliers, I'll make some calls on Monday. [I have seen a PC104 car power transformer/regulator in the PC104 form factor, designed to plug into the PC104 bus - it would sit below/ontop(?) of the 8250. Not sure of cost.]

Regards,
Michael