I'm not sure, but is this really a good idea? Wouldn't it be better to have two 600W PSUs than to have one with 1200W, and a flimsy splitter? Doubles the possible current, and also doubles the safety mechanisms. Of course it's more expensive, but I don't know if it wouldn't be worth the money (in professional or semi-professional environments).

I'm not sure, but is this really a good idea? Wouldn't it be better to have two 600W PSUs than to have one with 1200W, and a flimsy splitter? Doubles the possible current, and also doubles the safety mechanisms. Of course it's more expensive, but I don't know if it wouldn't be worth the money (in professional or semi-professional environments).

I going have say this is bad idea One good power spike will take both system and that my friend will be one very expensive paper weight.

I'm not a pro on the electrical dangers, but it just didn't make much sense to me as a noob. Except you need multiple, low power plugs, but you can hook up so many devices with today's cables. Maybe somebody with more expertise might help me to see the use in such a device, since it won't come for free either.

The question is how is this splitting this? Is it splitting it straight down the middle, or is it just by demand? As far as I know, regular power supplies cannot scale down in multiple situations, that's what redundant power supplies in servers are for. I just do not see how this works. If it splits it, then it has to "store" the maximum amount of power somewhere but it looks no where near big enough for that. You would almost have to have say 2 transformers than can take each load. They aren't even saying how efficiency is handled. The only way I can see it happening, the power distribution is controller internally by a chip. Very confused by this product none the less, does not make too much since. If you're really worried about size, then you're better off getting two redundant power supplies. They're slim, and can be long depending on the size and

Actually, this isn't a bad idea as long as they're not simply splitting things down the middle. They need to supply some extra power for the motherboard by either having to plug in to the wall or having some extra 3.3/5volt/12volt plugged in that'll replace the ones going directly to the mothers.

From the looks of it, and I may be wrong here, it's taking a single set of circuits and creating 2 parallel circuits. The automotive industry has been doing this for decades. We even do this in household and commercial wiring. Of course, in automotive applications the circuit loads are rather small and in household wiring the power supply to the house is large enough to cope with power draw across the various circuits while having power limits for each circuit. That aside, I'm not seeing where this is a safe idea. There are so many willing to run close to the power limits of their PSU that this is likely to increase PSU failure rates. We see people on the forums all the time wanting to buy some off-brand unit to run their system....or want to run a 500watt unit on a system with a 450+ load..... As soon as one of these groups decides that what they have is sufficient for power a second system using this product, all hell is going to break loose.... The idea is very "do-able"....but it brings a lot of safety concerns with it. The power split itself is not a concern as far as voltages are concerned. Voltage doesn't get split. A single 12V circuit gets split into 2, 12V parallel circuits. You'll still get the appropriate voltages on each circuit. The concern would be with amperage....

Isn't it cheaper anyway to get 2 500/600W PSU's than this splitter + an expensive high wattage PSU?

I'm not a pro on the electrical dangers, but it just didn't make much sense to me as a noob. Except you need multiple, low power plugs, but you can hook up so many devices with today's cables. Maybe somebody with more expertise might help me to see the use in such a device, since it won't come for free either.

This device is not for you, its for people that want 2 separate Internet/Media type PC's maybe one for each kid, one work/office PC and one media/internet, maybe one media file server and one internet PC. PCs that will use APU, not gaming beasts, but one that 600W-700W should be enough for both

As long as those two small rigs stand next to each other... But still, I wouldn't see it as reliably stable enough to trust all my data to a machine that has double the danger of failing hardware to pull the PSU with it (and the other rig, in the very very worst case scenario). But yeah, I guess there's a niche market for everything.

If I'm not mistaken as Sykozis said above this is just what it is. A power/current splitter. It just allows 2 systems to draw power from one source(in parallel probably). As a member above mentioned its been done for a long time in many industries. As long as the combined systems don't exceed the wattage/amperage of the power unit/source, it should be fine. Now about the safety mechanisms/concerns, well that's something to be tested/reviewed but I'm sure Phanteks has done their home work probably. :thumbup: