Single supply motherboard

Hi

I’m looking for a small motherboard (Px/AMD) witch runs on a single DC supply voltage i.e. 12 Volt.

Any ideas where to look ?

Thanks

Yes your right.

But the motherboard will be used for data collection far away from any main power, only power is a car battery. Like in a dessert.

Thanks

Too bad a laptop wouldn't work for you.

Well, you could use an AC supply and an inverter, but that's a lot of waisted energy.

I suggest you build your own power supply, you only need to drop the voltages from 12v to 5v and 3.3v. Heck, if you use an AT motherboard, it's even easier, just 12v and 5v (no 3.3v).

How much power do you need in that board? I've got some VERY high end AT boards that accept Pentium III's up to 1.4GHz. And wiring a 12v to 5v converter wouldn't be too hard (in fact, you could use standard three prong cords as long as you made sure nobody would plug anything in to household current when you got back).

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