From: William Levak (wlevak_at_grex.cyberspace.org)
Date: 2005-09-03 13:27:03
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Raymond C. Bryan wrote:
> >I have come across a Indus GT Commodore compatible floppy drive. It does
> >not have it's power supply with it. Does anybody know what it requires?
>
> I also came across one of these drives and I took it apart to try to
> figure that out - I never have and it is still in pieces in a box
> somewhere.
I took the drive apart. The line goes from the power connector, to a
switch, then to a large filter capacitor, and then to 2 7805's.
According to the 7805 spec's, it needs 10V input and will handle 1A each.
That would mean it needs a 10V 2A power supply, and it looks like the
center pin is positive.
I could not find a 10V 2A supply, so I went with my first guess of 12V
1.5A. The drive powers up, but does not read or write a floppy disk
correctly. I can't tell if it is not working, or I am not supplying
enough power.
Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list
Archive generated by hypermail pre-2.1.8.