The Only Sunbeam 5.25 Bay Cigarette Lighter build of 2023?

[Hunrad]

After a couple of months of waiting for a sketchy Ebay shipment from Latvia, it arrived. The Sunbeam 5.25 bay cig lighter.

I spent the better part of a year trying to find a legit one. Absolute novelty, works great.

Anyone else have a PC that still runs one of these?

[Sjaakie]

Love it. I should get one and start smoking.

[NavyCobra1417]

TIL those existed

[8tg]

The early 2000’s were wild, I spent ages trying to find a bunch of the dumb 5.25” bay stuff I wanted for my retro pc but opted to go with zero bags instead because of the difficulty of finding things like that or a newQ gold

[Anders155]

 

[TheGreatestGazoo]

That's awesome! As one of the old school fellas around here, I can totally appreciate. It reminds me that I did have a Sunbeam 20 in 1 front panel back in the day. I might still have it buried in the PC parts boneyard if I didn't throw it out during the Great Purge of 2020.

[OhioYJ]

I guess not really a big deal, but don't most cigarette lighters draw something like a little over 5 amps? I think most in cars are on 10 amp circuits.  Of course I guess even a 500 watt PSU is fairly standard these days and would handle something like this.

[Hunrad]

4 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

I guess not really a big deal, but don't most cigarette lighters draw something like a little over 5 amps? I think most in cars are on 10 amp circuits.  Of course I guess even a 500 watt PSU is fairly standard these days and would handle something like this.

I'm running a 650w Corsair gold. The lighter is DC12V powered by molex with a variance of up to 9A. Potentially, it could pull 100Wish, if my math is right. To test issues, me and a buddy just stress tested both CPU and GPU while trying the lighter. No flicker or any problems, so all is well that ends well.

[Rocketdog2112]

I had a Escort radar detector that required a 12 volt power supply to perform updates. Basically that meant dragging a laptop out to the vehicle. 

That item right there would have allowed me to power up and update the detector right from my desktop. 

[OhioYJ]

9 hours ago, Rocketdog2112 said:

I had a Escort radar detector that required a 12 volt power supply to perform updates. Basically that meant dragging a laptop out to the vehicle. 

That item right there would have allowed me to power up and update the detector right from my desktop. 

It would be pretty easy to add a accessory port to your PC. They sell cigarette lighters or just plain charging ports (minus the lighter part) that you can just wire to a 12 volt source. Wire it to a molex or SATA plug and hook it up.  

 

I know I don't care for RGB lights, but I did want lighting in my case so I've always just used automotive lighting in my case. It's always just been white LED strips typically, wired to a molex or SATA plug.  

[Rarity]

this one looks like the one in the LGR video about the same thing , only that its thermaltake branded in that video ..