<span id="mailbox-conversation">Just a phone charger will do fine. Depends on what you power through it of course, but it will run on 1A. </span><div class="mailbox_signature">—<br>Ricky</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:39 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wam@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">wam@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><br>What kind of PSU's are there for the RPi, I poked around a bit &
<br>couldn't find anything .... I don't care about a case & am up to my ears
<br>in CAT5 cables ....
<br><br><br>On 08/23/14 15:36, Allen Krell wrote:
<br>> Raspberry PI is great if you want something small. It could do ntp, file
<br>> serving, anything reasonable you want it to do. The only drawback is
<br>> making it neat looking. By the time you buy a power supply, a case, and a
<br>> CAT 5 cable to your router, you end up spending some money. If you want
<br>> to buy local, gigaparts has them in stock.
<br>>
<br>> I haven't looked in the past few years, but I had toyed with the idea of
<br>> setting up my own NTP stratum server based off a GPS signal. I couldn't
<br>> find a low cost way a few years ago, there may be something newer now.
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:02 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net>
<br>> wrote:
<br>>
<br>>>
<br>>> .... I just got done upgrading my daily driver. I am going to re-purpose
<br>>> the old one into a monowall box. However, the old one is also currently the
<br>>> ntpd server for my LAN. I might be able to podge another box together to do
<br>>> that job, assuming some apparently non-functional hardware is really just
<br>>> playing possum, or .... I could drop <$40.00 on a Raspberry Pi B+ from
<br>>> NewEgg & use that. it is running some sort of Linux, either directly
<br>>> (Debian or arch images are available) or its own OS which I think is Linux
<br>>> derived. I figure I should be able to get ntpd going, especially on the
<br>>> Debian & use that box as an ntpd server for the network .... Whaddaya
<br>>> think, good idea, all wet, something else .... TIA for advice &/or opinions
<br>>> ....
<br>>>
<br>>>
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