Re: Vulcan IIgs Power Supply Repair

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Polymorph <mike.a.stephens@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, the power supply seemed to be working fine, however I hadn't gotten
> around to connecting floppy drives as it had the Vulcan hard drive to
> boot into. The only thing I would say is the power supply sounded a bit
> "sparky" when you first switched it on.

That's pretty normal with the huge inrush current to charge the line-side
supply capacitors. 

If there had been a varistor in series the switches would last a lot
longer...

> I'll try and do some testing tonight to see if I can find a short using
> the method you described. Hopefully I can breathe some life back into it. :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

Good luck!

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon