Amiga 1200 in rack has arrived

[marcfrick2112]

tasmanian guy: First, good for you, you lucky !#@$@%^*!?! Second, as Save2600 pointed out, you should be able to use most any accel. regardless of where it was made. My fantastic German-made 1260 and 12xx SCSI module will vouch for this
As for the LED's, in my experience, it's not a big deal. I don't know the voltage, but I had a burned-out LED in an A4000T, I just grabbed the first LED I found, worked fine... even a nifty blue LED worked fine.... (check the polarity, tho...) Ah, so I'd guess the voltage is ~4.5V..., the amperage is prob. about 35-40ma.

[marcfrick2112]

Thanks for the info, I am just worried which way around the led wires go and if I blow anything up.  I don't really want to kill my Amiga after just receiving it of course.  
 
I've also found it hard to find any rectangle led's that the original Amiga used, I spose I could butcher one from somewhere, or perhaps someone here has got some spare Amiga LED's?
 
I am waiting to hear back from the dealer about the 1230 to see if it still available or not, it looks like they had not updated their Amiga stock for a year or so.

Hey, I was a little vague in my last post. You can't mess anything up on your Amiga if the LED polarity is reversed. I doubt you could even harm the LED itself... I don't have a bare Amiga motherboard here to check ( ) but there might even be a little indication showing where the positive (+) should go... at least there is on my Sega Genesis (oops, sorry, 'Mega Drive') As for the rect. LED's, RadioShack used to have them in thier 'LED Assortment'. Otherwise, check electronics places.. here in the states, I'd check 'All Electronics'....

[marcfrick2112]

Any 'surplus' electronics stores / websites that you know of? If so, these would be best to find rectangular LED's.

Just did a little Googling....
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/products.asp?dept=1233

You'd have to get the dimensions of the LED's, but it's a start...