Well in the olden days when you bought one of them
new fangled really fast IBM 6Mhz AT computers but
didn't order one of them huge high tech 5 1/4"
20Mb full height hard drives with 80mS access, it
shipped with a big power resistor that plugged
into the disk drive power connector. This used
enough current to keep the supply in regulation
and warm the box up too.

- -Mark

>>> Brad Turnert
<bturner@ENTERPRISE.POWERUP.COM.AU> 3 August 1996
5:21 am >>>
At 08:01 30-07-96 -0400, you wrote:
>      +5V   -5V   +12V   -12v
>      ---   ----  ----   ----
>150W  15A   0.5A    5A   0.5A
>180W  18A   0.5A    7A   0.5A
>200W  20A   0.5A    8A   0.5A
>230W  23A   0.5A    9A   0.5A
>250W  25A   0.5A   10A   0.5A
>
>You may need quite a load on the +5V output to
>make sure the power supply is in regulation.
>
>Of course your mileage may vary.
>
>- -Mark
No doubt about it, an old PC power supply would be
great to run some PIC
projects but how do you 'fake' the 'power good'
input, in my experience the
power supplies won't run without this feedback
(orange wire I think).
Thanks   Kim Turner.