| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 10 Oct 99 at 22:23:52 |
| Subject: | Re: PPC060 Power |
From: "Neil Bothwick" <neil@wire.net.uk>
Stephen Thornber said,
>>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.
I thought so, but I wanted to warn against anyone else doing this too.
>>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.!)
Pair of pliers and a roll of duct tape, what else do you need in a
toolkit (apart from a big hammer of course :).
> 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..?
It's only a power out if there's enough power inside for any to come
out. In this case the one on the card becomes a power in.
Neil
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