Is there any interest in new Amiga 3000D and 4000D power supplies?

[amigadave]

@x56h34,

I think you have a good idea here and it will serve the Amiga community to have these higher wattage, more efficient, better cooling PSU's available.  Given what you wrote on how you plan to accomplish this task, why not try to find as many dead or dying A3000 & A4000 PSU's and take them apart to use the housings again.  Then offer a discount to those buyers who send in their old PSU's so you will have a constant suppy of original PSU cases to do your conversions.

If reasonably priced, you can count on me to buy a couple of each, I currently have 3 of each A3000D & A4000D, but doubt that I will be keeping more than two of each in my render farm.

Good Luck

[amigadave]

x56h34 wrote:

koaftder wrote:
Are you going to fabricate your own chasis for the device, or will you require a core?

New chasis would be made according to the same dimensions of the original.

I cant immagine there being much profit for yall making powersupplies. You most likely wont sell thousands of them, and if you did you would have to outsource the pcb production and probably the assembly, as you wouldnt have time to solder all thoes diodes and caps and other things.

We are both aware of that. Realistically looking at things, we'd probably be looking at around 100 sales, if that. I guess if we could break even in the end, it would be worth doing it.

Even if you did setup shop in your garage and made your own pcb's, what would you do with all thoes gallons and gallons of waste ferric chloride? You have to pay to dispose of it properly.

We would buy internals of existing ATX power supplies that could fit into the A3000D or A4000D chasis, and simply rewire them to work with A3000D and A4000D style power connectors, and neatly secure the PCBs inside the chasis so that the entire job looks clean. We would definitely not make our own internals of the PSUs from scratch. That would be too expensive.

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.

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?