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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: pyrre on February 10, 2008, 11:58:53 AM

Title: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: pyrre on February 10, 2008, 11:58:53 AM
Anyone having any idea of the pin outs of the power connector  of  THIS (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=trumpcard&company=#s_trumpcard500) device?
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Merc on February 10, 2008, 12:58:51 PM
I've got one of these, and the manual with pinouts, somewhere.  Lemme take a look around and see if I can find it...
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Merc on February 10, 2008, 04:56:48 PM
Found it!  From left to right (counterclockwise) looking at the back of the Trumpcard 500:

+5v
+12v
GND
N/C
GND

Hope that helps!
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: pyrre on February 10, 2008, 08:01:58 PM
Thanx, it may help...
just need to find a connector that suits the trumpcard
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Merc on February 10, 2008, 08:41:23 PM
I think it's the same as an AT keyboard connector...
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: pyrre on February 10, 2008, 09:48:53 PM
AT keyboard may have to thin leads. the hard drive consumes 8 amps... nearly drowning my 200w AT psu.... the amiga psu wont even start it....  :-D
besides the only din connector keyboard i have i use with my a 1200...
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Merc on February 10, 2008, 11:56:14 PM
Just go buy one of those AT-PS2 adaptors, and hack it apart so you can solder right to the back of the AT side's pins...  a proper hack :D
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: mongo on February 11, 2008, 01:02:09 AM
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pyrre wrote:
AT keyboard may have to thin leads. the hard drive consumes 8 amps... nearly drowning my 200w AT psu.... the amiga psu wont even start it....  :-D
besides the only din connector keyboard i have i use with my a 1200...


No hard drive uses 8 amps. 8 Watts, maybe. 8 Amps, no way.
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: AMC258 on February 11, 2008, 02:33:21 AM
Wanna put money on that?  I used to have one that had it's own 1200W power supply.  It was 10M and the size of 4 A2000's.  Well, not quite.  About half that size.  I do still have the power supply somewhere.  I saved it and used it with my A500 way back when.

I hope if you use a Trumpcard your HD isn't too big...
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: pyrre on February 11, 2008, 06:24:58 AM
My trumpcard uses the original 40MB hard drive. And mongo is right, it is 8W not amps.... Anyway it was to large to run on stock A500 psu... It powered up at first but shutoff the HDD if i tried writing to it...
I use a 200W AT psu on it now, and connect the HDD directly to the psu.

I tried a 340MB HDD. but it wont mount that drive. Is there any limit in the trumpcard how large the disks can be?
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: AMC258 on February 11, 2008, 07:56:45 AM
Yeah, it was the whole reason I swapped mine for a DataCrawler, I mean, DataFlyer.  I seem to remember the limit was 500M though.  I could be wrong.  Also, I seem to remember it didn't like certain drives.
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Methuselas on February 11, 2008, 08:36:55 AM
HA! I have you *ALL* beat. I had a DataFryer in a Trumpcard casing! =P


Yeah, that thing was a hog. I had to power that beast with a bigfoot. When I got my first desktop, I gave that bigfoot to some guy in NY, if he paid for shipping.


@$$hole never did pay me back for the shipping charges......  :madashell:  :madashell:
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Iggy_Drougge on February 11, 2008, 11:52:12 PM
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Merc wrote:
Just go buy one of those AT-PS2 adaptors, and hack it apart so you can solder right to the back of the AT side's pins...  a proper hack :D

I have an even better idea: Just go buy the bloody connector! It costs 50 cents.
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: AMC258 on February 12, 2008, 02:07:07 AM
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HA! I have you *ALL* beat. I had a DataFryer in a Trumpcard casing! =P


NAW!  I can top that!  I had a Cybervision 64/3D in a DataCrawler case! d: :lol: /me sings Those were the days
Title: Re: Trumpcard A500, need a little help please
Post by: Merc on February 12, 2008, 11:52:22 PM
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Iggy_Drougge wrote:
I have an even better idea: Just go buy the bloody connector! It costs 50 cents.


Now there's a concept!  :-D