bigmeanies

Honestly, I would start with something like this, it is a dated book but most of the projects are still buildable and it does go decently into theory...side note, if you are doing laser projects you should invest in good eye protection...on the topic of my limited depth perception.

Can you upload a picture of it?

If you are going solar and using an inverter, I would suggest using a powerstrip with good filter on it. I would look at something like this for surge protection or you can do like I do in my RV and run your battery powered inverter to feed a UPS. While it is a little less efficient it does do wonders for being able to hotswap batteries without disrupting your electronics and it does buffer out power drops that happens from say initial powerup of an electronic device....such as a mini fridge in an RV.

Tested it on 6 machines so far, and for most of them I can do the undervolt thing and keep my thermals down at the 70-85 range, which hopefully will keep these machines working for some time to come, downside is on the bmw blender render it adds about 10-25 seconds to it. But that is something I can live with.

Thank you, and I'll try that! I got stuck moving back to help out with the parents and...We will just say that this is a situation that is less than ideal for a 3d artist. I have no illusions on how it will end for the machines but I'm going to try and get at least a few years out of them.

Alrighty, so I lucked into a bulk buy of some dell workstation laptops (mostly dell precision m4800) and I live in the sticks with power that shuts off once or twice a day. Now I'm wanting to use these machines to do rendering on and I'm looking for some way to set it up so that the cpu will start throttling at a lower temp, such as 85C. Any suggestions on how to make this happen? I'm looking for something as idiot proof as can be.