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A590 Power Supply Troubles
« on: December 12, 2004, 11:49:17 AM »
I have to repair a 590 unit of which the DIN Connector is wrecked. I have two options, either replace the DIN plug or make the A590 power from the Amiga.

Option 1. I can find pinouts for this baby, 5V, 12V, Ground they are all easy to find. However I also need the Sense cable. Here is the tricky thing, the beast has a 5 wired cable! Does anyone know what colour cable is which?

Option 2. A nice way of reducing the clutter of powersupplies, however I am pretty reluctant to draw power from the 86pin port. The 590 has a 7200rpm Seagate drive which does require a bit of steam! This would put strain on the A500 mainboard and ofcourse the power supply.

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Re: A590 Power Supply Troubles
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2004, 02:14:51 PM »
Nope, that doesn't help. I need the pinouts for an A590.
Moreover, I need to know which colour cable is which, I know where I need to connect them, just not which colour is what!
As I said, 12v, 5v and ground can be found with a multimeter but then I still need the sense wire. And then I still have one cable left over. (4 pins + shielding and cable has 5 wires + shielding)
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Re: A590 Power Supply Troubles
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2004, 03:10:46 PM »
Thanx, I figured that much. However what's bothering me is I want to use the original power supply, but the Din pug on the cable is busted (heavily). But the power supply has a sense line which tells the supply to switch on when the amiga does. That means it will not switch on unless I have that sense line either connected to +5v or on the sense line in the a590.
I have 2 cables spare (I have 12v, 5v, ground and shielding taken care of) now I need to know which is which. One of them is probably the sense line and the other might be an alternative to the shielding or something. Inside the brick all 5 cables attach to the print in various places. That leaves me bothered with which one is which!
C= nicely labeled everything inside their miggy's, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING is mentioned on the brick's PCB. Bummer  :pissed:
Greetings from Wilnis, The Netherlands
Now owning ALL Amiga models and most; if not all; flavours of them...My Amiga Museum