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Re: How much strain can a IIGS power supply handle?
- Subject: Re: How much strain can a IIGS power supply handle?
- From: "Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 20:16:29 +1000
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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I'm running 4 drives, an AHS card, an 8M RAM card, a fan, and Quickie
Scanner on my stock GS supply.
Mark
Matthew Carpenter <msc1983@mac.com> wrote in message
news:msc1983-2110010032070001@192.168.1.101...
> 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!"