Author Topic: Setting up Amiga 2000 w/Video Toaster (Read 5789 times)

Plaz · « **on:** June 05, 2014, 05:02:57 AM »

Toasters are sensitive to power issues. If you have a 20+year old power supply that's never had a refurb, it's a fair bet it can't handle all the hardware you have installed there along with the toaster.

Plaz

Plaz · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2014, 01:47:56 PM »

Quote from: magnetic;765798

Also, I doubt its PSU issues. Those a2000 psu last a very long time, they are well made unlike modern ones.

Over the years I've had two toaster systems go fritz. Refurbed the power supplies, toasters all better. Agreed, 2000 psu's were well made. But they still contain eletrolytic capacitors which have a limited life span. To the 2000's credit, the old PS still manages most things ok even with a basket full of dried up crusty capacitors.

Plaz

Plaz · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2014, 01:57:20 PM »

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I was considering upgrading it to a PicoPSU-160, adapter cable, and moving J300. However, I'm not sure if the P/S provided tick signal is relevant or not to proper Toaster operation.

I built a A3000 toaster/flyer system with a spare PC case/power supply with an adapter. I didn't have any issue with the toaster using the PS supply. But I'm not positive if that's relevant to your setup.

Plaz

Plaz · « **Reply #3 on:** June 07, 2014, 01:43:06 PM »

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Shame that Newtek doesn't repair them anymore, but they did give them a pretty good long run! :pint:

Has to be some kind of record for hardware warranty support. 6-7 years ago when they repaired my flyer they said the planned to support the "gen 1" cards as long as they had parts to do so. Guess they finally ran out. Or maybe their hardware repair guy retired.

Plaz