amigadave wrote:
I can't imagine why you didn't like my idea of using existing "REAL" Amiga PSU housings, unless you think finding the cores would be too much trouble and don't think your buyers would supply you with their existing PSU's for a source of cores.
The original chasis for both A3000 and A4000 could certainly be improved as far as airflow holes are conserned. We figured that a completely new arrangement would be in order, thus the idea of reusing existing original chasis would not provide for a clean solution, as a lot of custom cutting would be required and we are not equipped for that sort of thing. The design of the new chasis would be done by us and the actual manufacturing would be done by a 3rd party contractor. As soon as we design the chasis and find a fitting ATX PCB, we will look for the best option on 3rd party manufacturing. The idea is to have all the parts ready for a simple assembly by the two of us, testing, and finally sale.
Other than fitting the ATX PSU's into the Amiga PSU housing, fitting the fan properly and switching the MoBo connectors, what PCB are you talking about?
I think that A3000 motherboard requires tick signal to be present, and some sort of a solution would have to be provided in order for our idea to work with A3000D system in mind.