Re: Sider power-supply repairs?

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:oR18b.114590$kW.73776@edtnps84...

> I opened a Sider to take a look and realized I have a spare duplicate
> power supply in my parts cupboard. The only difference is that instead
> of soldering the wires directly on, they used connectors instead.
> The power supply is an astec. Not sure of the part number. I just
> uploaded a pic to
> http://www3.telus.net/waynes/
> The pic is called astec_ps.jpg. If this is the same as yours you can
> have it for the cost of shipping from Canada.

Hey, Wayne

My Sider PS is a Harris brand. If your Power Supply (in the case) has the
same form factor as my Harris, then I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I ended up buying an small ATX power supply, and I was planning to switch
the guts of the ATX to the case of my Harris. This should be very easy since
I know the pin-outs (etc.) of the Harris and ATX. The only problem that I
see is that the ATX PS is powered on and off by the Motherboard, instead of
a simple on/off switch. There is a small control card on the PS that has two
wires labeled (on/off) that I am assuming can be snipped and tied together
(as a by-pass) so that the PS can be controlled by the ON/OFF switch on the
case. Can anyone confirm that tying those two control card wires together
will leave the PS in a constant ON condition?

Thanks.

E.