Where to get high current 5V and 12V on X210?

[flyingfishfinger]

Hi all-
I just picked up this guy for experimentation, but I still need to power it. It comes with an adapter that looks like it pins out the standard Molex 4-pin, so it appears to consume both 5V and 12V. I'll try to measure the SATA connector one of these days to see if it has 12V, but I doubt it does.

In the meantime, anyone know where else on the board I might be able to pick off high-current 5V and if / where 12V exists?

Cheers,
R

[Thinkpad4by3]

I'm not sure about the X210 but in the interest of not accidentally killing a such low number board...I would recommend getting a cheap PC power supply and shorting the green and black wires to turn it on. Then you have as much +5V and +12V as you could ever want or need.

[L29Ah]

Hi all-
I just picked up this guy for experimentation, but I still need to power it. It comes with an adapter that looks like it pins out the standard Molex 4-pin, so it appears to consume both 5V and 12V. I'll try to measure the SATA connector one of these days to see if it has 12V, but I doubt it does.

In the meantime, anyone know where else on the board I might be able to pick off high-current 5V and if / where 12V exists?

Grab 5V from USB. I doubt high current 12V exists at all, but you may want to check the LCD backlight power.

[flyingfishfinger]

I took "12V" straight from the battery, since that sits at 11.1V...which turns out is close enough for the USB-C card, which regulates down to 5V anyway.

For 5V, I'm guessing the usual 500mA current limit applies if it's drawn from USB, unless the internal / PCIe ports don't regulate that properly?

R

[L29Ah]

For 5V, I'm guessing the usual 500mA current limit applies if it's drawn from USB, unless the internal / PCIe ports don't regulate that properly?

I've managed to shutdown my X210 by attaching [censored] to USB power leads, so probably the current limiter doesn't work as good as it should have worked, or is not present on some ports. I don't have a sane variable current load to test it properly tho.