[asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Rob Hillis]

Steve Totaro wrote:
>>  Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful.  I can think of at
>> least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted on having a
>> TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know can't provide enough power
>> to the card where it's being used as a collection of FXS ports.  Of course
>> we've advised them of the limitation, but they completely ignored us.  :)
>>
>>  Something like this would have allowed us to provide a solution to a
>> problem that is likely to come back and bite us in the future.
>>     
>
> I see your point in that circumstance, but I would have employed a
> channel bank, totally avoiding your inevitable future bite.
>   

Customer's insistence.  We didn't have a choice, really.