steve@wildcat.UUCP (Steve Holland) (04/23/91)
Since I have seen several people on here talking (oops typing) about adding big power supplies to their A500, I thought I might mention several things: (I just installed a 150watt PC power-supply) 1. Do NOT provide too much available power. If you underload a power supply, you may cause it to switch down so that it for certain reasons may get noisy (loud) and/or noisy (electrically). 150 Watts is far more than most 500 owners will ever need. 2. Get your power supply tested before you install it. Installing it requires soldering and cutting wires, so after you do that you will probably not be able to return it if it doesn't work. 3. When you get it, you will be amazed at the number of wires coming out of it. The best way to connect it to the A500 is by taking a part an old C= supply. Remove the circuit board and the heat sink from the old supply and then solder its cable to the computer to the appropriate connectors on the new power supply. Note that if yours is like mine, there will be two different lines in the cable connected to the +5 pin. Connect these to DIFFERENT +5 lines from the new power supply. Now put the solder connection and excess cable in that box for the old C= supply. 4. All disclaimers apply - if you blow your computer doing this its YOUR fault, not mine. YOU take the entire and complete risk. ----------->Steve Holland<----------- Internet: wildcat!steve@alphalpha.com| "I never let my schooling get in the USENET: ...!alphalpha!wildcat!steve | way of my education" -Mark Twain