Re: Transwarp card for //e

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Roy and/or Janet Miller wrote:

> That's a lot of power being used there. According to AE's catalog (where they
> are selling their beefed up power supply) a //e uses 1 amp, the 5.25 and 3.5
> pull .9 amps, an accelerator pulls .5 amps, a CP/M card pulls .3 - 1 amps,
> and a printer card pulls .3 - .6 amps, while the standard ][ power supply
> only gives you 2.5 amps to play with.

That's what those cards can use. However at startup, when the TransWarp
splash screen should come up most of those cards are using very little power.

>
> > NOTE: System works fine without Transwarp card installed.
> >
> > I tried removing all the cards except the Transwarp.  Same problem as
> > before - system won't  boot.  Maybe the Power supply is the problem ?

If it'll run fine with all your cards in it exceptb the TransWarp but won't run
with only the TransWarp in it  then it's unlikely to be a power supply problem.

Wayne