Re: Indus GT floppy drive power supply

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_grex.cyberspace.org)
Date: 2005-11-09 08:40:31

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 RolfMiller@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/29/05 12:11:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> wlevak@grex.cyberspace.org writes:
> 
> 
> > 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 am guessing 12 V DC at about 1.5 A.  
> 
> The following came from one who has an Indus GT.
> 
> O.K., Here is the deal with the Indus GT Drives.
> All of the Indus GT power supplies are in reality power supplies from 
> Atari 5200 video game systems.  No Kidding!  If you peel off the Indus 
> sticker on the power supply it says "Atari 5200".  Indus bought the 
> power supplies from Atari cheap after the 5200 didn't do well so all 
> you need to do is purchase an Atari 5200 power supply and off you go!  
> Nothing needs to be changed with the drive or the power supply, it's 
> plug and go!

Since the drive did not work properly with the 12V 1.5A power supply, I 
thought I would try something that would be sure to provide enough power, 
An IBM laptop power supply, 16V at 4.5A.  The drive seemed to be all right 
with this, but when I connected the drive to the C64, the screen went 
blank, and the C64 stopped responding.  Luckily, when I disconnected the 
drive, the C64 resumed working.

It seems I need to stick close to the 9V value.




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