[LUNA] Oddball question ....

[cyberdork33]

Just a phone charger will do fine. Depends on what you power through it of course, but it will run on 1A. —
Ricky

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:39 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
wrote:

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