Re: Reviving Spock

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> When trying to diagnose a non-working fan, I managed to kill my
> vulcan's power board.  After inspecting it, I think it might be
> repairable (I think one of the rectifiers grounded out and shorted) but
> this is some serious old school technology I could do without.  (Unless
> someone knows offhand how I could go about diagnosing this one)
>
> I'm really tempted to replace the vulcan power board with a flex atx or
> a mini itx power supply and run the //e's 5v and 12v lines off of that.
> However, though the output voltages are correct on paper, I don't know
> if the tolerances on the actual output are correct (e.g. if the 5v is
> really 4.8v will it fry something?)  Any ideas on this folks?  I'd very
> much like to get my //e back on again, preferably with a power supply
> that runs cooler.
>
> Thanks folks!
>
> -B
>

My vulcan kept blowing fuses, immediately after it was switched on. I cut 
the molex connector off and attatched it to a small AT-style power supply. I 
posted the values to the newsgroup, thinking some recent unstability might 
have been due to the power supply 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/e0c8bde91ece228f/ . 
Turns out the V-tech UDC was a bit flakey.

-Greg