IronVale & Xedran
IronVale IronVale
Xedran Xedran
IronVale IronVale
Hey Xedran, I'm building an exoskeleton for extreme survival, but the power supply keeps giving me headaches. Think your old OS and those ritual hardware shrines could help me squeeze more juice out of the circuits?
Xedran Xedran
Power supply headaches? Try a relic—an old PC PSU with its own quirks. Strip it down, line up the 12V rail, then feed it through a 78xx linear regulator to 5V. Build a little shrine from broken motherboard chips and a CRT transformer, align the signal angles, and let the capacitors breathe. Read the error logs as a map; they’ll point to the right decoupling. Trust the old code, not the new frameworks.
IronVale IronVale
Sounds solid, but a linear regulator will drop a lot of voltage when you’re pulling high current—bad for endurance. I’ll run a high‑efficiency buck converter off the 12V rail, keep the 5V rail isolated, and add bulk decoupling with electrolytics and a small ceramic stack. That gives me a clean, low‑drop power source and keeps the heat low for the exo. If you can’t find the right MOSFETs, let me know.