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Landonh12

25-05-2016 00:03

Re: Custom Drive Stations

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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky (Post 1587662)

Currently I am working on a driver station that has a full sized desktop in it. Should be done for next season.

It is going to have a full sized ATX motherboard, 2 ssds in Raid 0, a nvidia Quadro, and sometimes around the line of an i5 or an 8350.

This is not a good idea. The power outlets on the field only allow current of up to 3 amps before it trips its internal breaker. Powering a computer of that size AND a monitor will definitely pull more than that.

See 2.2.3.1 here, under PLAYER STATION: https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...-manual-02.pdf

orangelight

25-05-2016 06:11

Re: Custom Drive Stations

What laptops do you guys recommend for a driver station?

messer5740

25-05-2016 07:25

Re: Custom Drive Stations

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Originally Posted by orangelight (Post 1589508)

What laptops do you guys recommend for a driver station?

I would suggest anything that had decent processing and ram. We had no problems with our laptop this year. I'm pretty sure we used a dell Inspiron 15 which worked fine for code and as a driver station.

Sperkowsky

25-05-2016 07:28

Re: Custom Drive Stations

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Originally Posted by orangelight (Post 1589508)

What laptops do you guys recommend for a driver station?

I always recommend Thinkpads.

cbale2000

25-05-2016 08:57

Re: Custom Drive Stations

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Originally Posted by orangelight (Post 1589508)

What laptops do you guys recommend for a driver station?

We got an HP Pavilion 17" with an AMD A10-8700P Processor, 8GB RAM and R6 Graphics; we also added a 500GB solid-state to it after we got it (cause 5400rpm drives are worthless). It came with a backlit keyboard and a touchscreen too, which is nice. All for around $500.

Having a bigger laptop can make it a bit clunky, but the larger screen size is great for custom dashboards.

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