Amigactive (434/978)

From:Stephen Thornber
Date:10 Oct 99 at 23:08:03
Subject:Re: PPC060 Power

From: Stephen Thornber <SThornber@steve1.demon.co.uk>

Hi

>I'd strongly recommend against doing this, although I did it for a
>couple of days in an emergency. firstly the 486 fans are much thicker
>than the PPC fans used by P5, there isn't room in the A4000 for one of
>these to fit correctly, let alone an A1200.

Thats not what I wanted to do anyway.

>More importantly, the PPC fans have a higher flow rate than most 486
>fans. Farnell do a suitable fan, only slightly thicker than the PPC fan
>and a higher flow rate.

oh...

>However, I don't think this is what Stephen was asking. If he just wants
>to power the original fan from elsewhere, that's fine. Any standard 5V
>supply will do, I took mine from a drive power connector.

Correct.!

right, I've looked in my tower and the drive power connector
won't connect to the fan.. so I guess I'm gonna have to cut
some wires huh? (oh dear.!)

it was mentioned by a friend, that to boost power to the edge
connector, I could plug my drive power connector into the
normal 1200 drive power connector... hmm
now this seems strange to me, connecting a power out to
a power out..?

do you guys know if this will work?

Regards
Steve



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