Side hack made up some 39 inch y cables.
results are perfect at the one day mark on my 2880/2890 boards
quotes below
basically
121.44 watts vs 242.88 watts per breakout board jack
or 10 amps vs 20 amps per breakout board jack
So if you are like me and have a ton of 2880/2980 break out boards the high quality full length y-cables seem to work
if you have the 2000 watt gear optimizers boards are better the j4bberwocks for the avalon 6
I will be doing testing on them very soon.
I simply say this j4bberwock's boards do not work great with the avalon 6 due to the higher current needed.
make adjustments for the sake of safety.
@ optimizer I sent a 2880 psu and the 2880 breakout board that was toasted a bit
What do sidehack's cables look like in action?
they are 16 gauge and they plug into 16 jacks on the psu side
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on the avalon end 2 avalon 6's have a total of 8 jacks.
so 16 jacks merge into 8 jacks.
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this setup draws 8.8 to 9.0 amps of 240 volt power. it is 40 f this morning
so 8.8 amps of 240 volt power = 2112 watts at the wall/ac
2112/7058 = 0.2992 watts at the pdu/wall
sp the 2980 is a true platinum psu
and these y cables 1 meter long allow the load on the breakout board jacks to run far cooler
as 2112/16 = 132 watts vs 2112/8 = 264 watts
i was lazy and used the ac watts I did not convert to dc
so 132 watts x .92 = 121.44 vs 264 x .92 = 242.88
So the 2880 /2980 breakout board seems to not be able to handle 242.88 dc watts very well
but it seems to do well with 121.44 dc watts
I have a lot of these psu's and boards so getting the custom wires works for me.
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note the volts do not sag this issue is bigger on the avalon 6 then the s-7
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