Building our Rugged Portable Computer System
| Attaching the Wires |  |
| Power Supply Case |  |
| Test Fit |  |
| Load Testing +12 Volts with and old disk drive |  |
| Load Testing +5 Volts with a 1 Ohm load resistor |  |
| Mounting the Magnetics |  |
| More Load Testing. Unfortunately, I do not have a working ATX motherboard and RAM to check the supply on yet, but that is forth comming. |  |
| I broke down and bought a Packard Bell ATX Motherboard complete with MII 300 processor. Turns out the supply I cut the connector from had a white power good wire and brown -12 Volts. After fixing this cross wire, the board posted no problems. |  |
| This board has integrated video and sound and draws about 4 Amps I'm guessing the complete system will draw about 6 Amps. |  |
| Here we've added a power switch and most important, a fuse. |  |
| Here's how it looks from the back. |  |