S-100 Power Supplies: thanks!

From: Rich Beaudry <r_beaudry_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 30 10:20:27 2001

Hello all,

Thanks to all for the wonderful hints and tips. I have already gotten
offers from several people to send/pick-up full power supplies. I will
certainly follow up on some of those (but not all, simply because I could
use a couple, not 5 or ten! :-).

I will also get the 6.3V transformer, and try to build my own, just to know
I can do it.

Dick is right: In this particular case (though not all), I'd rather buy/get
than build. Partially this is due to my inexperience at building power
supplies. I have several S-100 backplanes, and many S-100 cards, but only
one power supply. I'd like to get more S-100 stuff going, and I'd rather
not release the magic smoke on my cards due to a bad design or bad
construction methods. These boards are getting harder to find (at least in
my corner of the world), so if I have a known working supply, I'd rather use
that.

On the other hand, this is the perfect opportunity to learn how to build a
power supply. However, as Dick also pointed out, that is a secondary
concern. I am more anxious to get the S-100 stuff running than I am to
build a power supply. I will build one up, however (and test it
thoroughly), and put it into operation. It's just that it will take me more
time to get things running if I have to build up a power supply, rather than
getting one already made.

Thanks again to all,

Rich B.
Received on Thu Aug 30 2001 - 10:20:27 BST