Re: How much strain can a IIGS power supply handle?

["Hilary M. Turner" <hilarymichael@ozemail.com.au>]

 I know Townsville as I was posted there for a couple of years. I got my GS
after I returned to Oakey which is hot and very dry. Left there after the 7 year
drought broke. The point here is all the electric motors that I brought with me
down here to Victoria all burnt out within a year except the Refrigerator [knock
on wood {several times} very heavily}.

    Also I've had a couple of power supplies just burn up after the move. The
problem was moving from a hot dry climate to a moderate climate which get salt
water and far more moisture in a used condition. With the motors it was the wear
and tare on them but with the power supplies I suspect it to be more the salt
content.

    Even with that added into (I forgot the internal fan also) it the IIGS power
supply is still going strong. I also suspect that being 240V the unit would have
to be stronger then a 115V supply as the input to the mother board is the same
but the intake is nearly double so the drop_down is far greater.

Hilary


Mark Cummings wrote:

> Hi Hilary,
>
> Doesn't seem to be anyone else answering except us Aussies. :)
>
> Sorry Matthew I forgot to mention that before, but I expect the Power Supply
> output would be rated the same in US as Oz. And I'm in the tropics in
> Townsville with no airconditioning. We get an average of 20-30deg Celcius
> most of the year going up to 35deg Celcius 95% humidity in the wet season. I
> also leave my case lid off most of the time, because I like to PnP a lot,
> testing other hardware.
>
> Mark
>
> Hilary M. Turner <hilarymichael@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> 3BD2E0DF.D1540F85@ozemail.com.au">news:3BD2E0DF.D1540F85@ozemail.com.au...
> > Well Iv got what you have also a 180M hard drive a GSTranswarp and a hand
> > scanner board with 5M of memory. Mine here in Australia we're using 250V
> at 50
> > Hz power but my power supply has been working since the day I got it with
> a skip
> > or bump. Here is when I vigorously knock on wood. I do however have a
> spare just
> > in case.
> >
> >
> >
> > Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >    I have been using my IIGS with two 3.5 drive and two 5.25 drives, and
> > > an internal fan.  Today I installed a Apple high speed SCSI card and
> > > removed the fan(it got in the way, I have a System saver so it shouldn't
> > > be a problem)  and I plan on putting a stereo board in it sometime.
> > >    What I'm wondering is will the power supply be able to handle the 4
> > > disk drives, the SCSI card and a Stereo board?  I read in a floppy drive
> > > manual that I shouldn't try to connect more than 4 floppy drives because
> > > it could overload the power supply.  I'm fairly certain that neither the
> > > SCSI card nor Stereo board would use enought power to make it nessesary
> to
> > > disconect one of my floppy  drives but I'd still like to hear from
> someone
> > > else on this.
> > > --
> > > -MSC
> > > AIM: MSC1983MSC         ICQ: 42442595
> > > "Stand Back! I have an open Power supply and I'm not afraid to do
> > > something stupid with it!"
> >