Re: Vulcan Power Supply Fuse

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

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"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
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>>"Bryan Parkoff" <BryanParkoff@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> ....I have similar experience with Vulcan power supply.  You buy new
>>> fuse, but it is blown again and again.  It is no good in use because
>>> Vulcan power supply is defective.
>>
>>Yeah, as soon as I put the new one in, it blew.
>>
>>> ....There is hard find for Vulcan power supply repair.  I found new
>>> naked power supply that it has the same height and width size.  It has
>>> the same +12V, -12V, +5V, -5V, and also the same number of amp.
>>> ....I put naked power supply into Vulcan unit.  It works very well.  I
>>> can't remember any electronic store that it sells naked power supply.
>>> I will have to research and post the power supply at later time.
>>> ....Last time, I remembered that I paid approximately $59.95 or less.
>>>
>>> Bryan Parkoff
>>
>>So, I assume my Vulcan power supply is dead. I opened it up and didn't see
>>any obvious damage. These things aren't easy to fix, are they? I may take 
>>it
>>to a local electronics repair shop, see what they make of it.
>
> The problem may be quite simple, or it may be quite complex.  It will
> take some electronic diagnosis to determine the situation.
>
> I replied to a recent "power supply" thread regarding the possibilities
> if a supply is blowing fuses...
>
>>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20041114062615.232
> 49.00000678%40mb-m03.aol.com
>
>>I've got another IIe I could steal a power supply from, but I'd have to do
>>without the Vulcan. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt an IBM power supply,
>>right? I can just cut connector right off the dead Vulcan power supply.
>>Do the buggie power supplies have the power hookups for the IDE vulcan 
>>hard
>>drive?
>
> They certainly do if they haven't been cut off!
>
> The typical PC power supply will have at least two, and often four,
> of the 4-pin storage device power connectors.
>
> -michael
I took the entire unit apart and saw no obvious damage. I don't have the the 
know-how to diagnose it any further, so I ended up just scrapping it for the 
hard drive and the power connector. The power connecter is now attatched to 
a small AT-style power supply, which is working fine with the platinum IIe 
so far.

-Greg
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