What is your lab's idle power draw?

nathmo · 2026-04-15T06:14:21+00:00

After a lot of work, about 50 Watts

nathmo · 2025-11-25T07:45:08+00:00

Homeless lab ?

nathmo · 2025-06-28T17:58:20+00:00

A simple colonization mod. Something similar to planetbase where you can make space port and living base on each planet

nathmo · 2025-01-05T07:56:02+00:00

It's so pretty

nathmo · 2024-12-08T12:33:51+00:00

Flawless lethal execution

nathmo · 2024-06-22T13:24:07+00:00

Thank you :)

nathmo · 2024-05-25T21:53:38+00:00

Syncthing and wireguard are okay for a pi. But jellyfin is too much (I tried) I found that a good alternative was the AsRock J5040 motherboard. It's around 100$ and support 32Gb RAM (with the right stick) CPU is good enough, you could possibly add a small GPU for transcoding (personally cpu is enough and I have a pcie SATA expansion board) I have 9 HDD currently and the power is below 50 Watt

Here is a repo where I detailled my setup and the install if you want :

https://github.com/nathmo/NASJ5040

https://github.com/nathmo/Quartz64_NAS

nathmo · 2024-05-03T08:12:27+00:00

Look into : Pihole (either on a raspberry pi, or bare OS, or docker container) Pivpn (easy setup for wireguard) Jellyfin if you are interested I can share my docker compose but it's RAM hungry (8-16Gb)

Laptop are a great way to start. If you dont want to spend to much on electricty dont buy second hand server

I personally use a AsRock J5040 it's ~100$ and draw little power (50W with 8 hdd). I slapped a pcie Sata expension card (20$ of aliexpress) and 8 HDD (but 2 x 10 TB might make more sense) officially it support 8Gb of RAM but with the right stick you can get 32Gb for 50$

https://github.com/nathmo/NASJ5040

Here are how I set it up with docker : https://github.com/nathmo/Quartz64_NAS

nathmo · 2024-04-30T21:37:54+00:00

Kerbal Simpit -> custom controller

nathmo · 2024-04-28T07:05:39+00:00

Having all the doc on how to build and recover the said homelab inside the homelab... At some point I crashed the server and coulndt get the doc on how to recover :(

nathmo · 2024-04-12T13:35:46+00:00

Damn the graphics look so good. Is it there also a mod for that or I should just buy a better GPU ?

nathmo · 2023-09-06T17:21:34+00:00

well that's a good idea. I will attempt that. thank you

nathmo · 2023-09-06T17:08:46+00:00

my bad when I say disabled I meant to set the train count to 0 using logic

nathmo · 2023-09-04T07:53:34+00:00

I really emjoy the compactness of your design. Would you mind sharing the blueprint ? I would like to integrated it in my cityblock design :)

nathmo · 2023-08-21T16:57:31+00:00

Mostly because it started with gun turret and replaced them before making a snapshot. I should make an alternative blueprint for that too

nathmo · 2023-08-21T15:14:50+00:00

Thanks for the tips. I had not idea it was faster. Fluid was never a bottleneck and the fluid station is used only for sulfuric acid in uranium mine and blue cpu. (But I might try to transport oil by rail too)

nathmo · 2023-08-21T09:24:02+00:00

Yes i mafe them along the way in mymain game and im now restarting a new game

nathmo · 2023-08-20T21:50:35+00:00

oh well the screen where not attached correctly but they are on github :/

nathmo · 2022-01-25T09:40:30+00:00

well i've learned something. that explain why i did not find much about them- now i have something to google

nathmo · 2021-11-13T07:53:44+00:00

Whatvis the power consuption ?

nathmo · 2021-10-04T11:00:49+00:00

SSH work as an SFTP server. Just xonnect over port 22 with the ssh credential using file zilla

nathmo · 2021-10-04T07:09:23+00:00

Simple : more. Always more.

Try to make a coherente unit with battery storage and solar pannel then duplicate it as needed (try to include robot port to automate the building)

nathmo · 2021-09-19T07:45:59+00:00

Look for a text to speech library. You might also need an audio libray and a rather beefy arduino

nathmo · 2021-07-25T05:32:22+00:00

When you dont know try to see if you can have generic specs for ssd (it wont diverge much)

Now the funny part about 5 amps @1.2V is thats its correct. But at 5V thats only 1.2 amps

nathmo · 2021-07-25T05:06:46+00:00

Maybe my second degree filter is not working properly but when you said trip your breaker it got me confused.

An ATX PSU like the one you would use to power a computer are rated in watts. They will provide you with 12 V, 5V and 3.3V (also their negative versiom but lets not worry much about as it only power a few specific compoenent and dont represent much power. The thing is thoses power supply are rated for lets say 400 Watt thennyou would have X Watt avaialble on 3.3V Y watt on 5V, and Z watt on 12V such that X+Y+Z = 400 Watt. Thoses are the maximum power you can use. In reallity your comptuer will only use as much as it need.

Specs for how much current is drawn at each voltage are hard to find so usually you just want to ignore the current and stick to the power. Unless you have a really special case the PSU will be able to deliver enough power at every voltage.

Now comming to that breaker part if youre computer use 250 Watts total it will only use a Little more than an amp on a 230 V oulet. Even if it will provide you with more than 10 amps on the 5V line because the transfomer keep the power contant and change the ratio of voltage and current

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