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[gert79]

I decided to rebuild my setup again and just wanted to share "my way" how to approach cabling etc.

Space is quite tight so every horizontal surface should be used.. So far power cabling for 8 channel Soundcraft mixer, 24" Monitor and Mac is done, and all the peripheral cabling.

Tomorrow i will probably remove the Doepfer sequencer from the rack and mount other devices, actually this is my first "real" rack, even if it's just a thin metal frame. on bottom is a "low" res monitor for Atari ST, will be running from FPGA miST, mostly for caged artist editors and Hotz midi translator. I am hoping to fit a MAM VF-11 vocoder without cover on top and play a bit with the trimmer settings inside (~25 trimmers, 11 band vocoder and filter bank).

Mac G4 QS is on bubble foil not to scratch the floor too much. Supply to first triple socket is 2,5mm², the phase is done with 4mm short circuit resistant rubber wire so I can attach the fluke fork for checking actual Ampere consumption anytime.

I like to call it the "final" rig since I want to do this only once and don't plan from moving away from my spot. I hope this post will not trigger negative reactions. I am a freak, I know what I do

If anybody is interested I can post internals of the Mac with the new "German engineered" fans - as far as I can open the side door still...

I can only mention I selected the CPU and case fan according to airflow from original fans. CPU and gfx card were quite cool with new fans, but those "silent" fans were very loud. Solution was to run the fans only on 7 volt (+5 and +12) and the system is more quiet, CPU and gfx card are only hand warm then. Downgraded to an ATI Rage pro just to have a cooler system, I only need one monitor anyways. PSU fan runs at full speed always and has almost identical specs to original fan, this one is the "loudest" and blows out medium warm hot air after running for a while. The G4 is now still louder than a usual dualcore windows laptop, but generally very quiet in comparison to other things. I cut out the metal grill from the PSU case for better airflow as well.

[robespierre]

Hi, I'm a little bit confused by your picture with the ammeter. You just run the insulated flex through it, without splitting out the inner wires? How is that supposed to work, since the magnetic flux from the conductors cancel?