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Offline SpeedGeek

Re: A3000D Dead Power Supply
« on: February 06, 2015, 05:40:55 PM »
Quote from: Erol;783183
Does anyone know if these can be repaired?
ive seen a few threads on replacing with a PC power supply.

 I repaired my A3000 PSU a few years ago, but it's probably not something for someone to attempt without previous repair experience. ;)
 

Offline SpeedGeek

Re: A3000D Dead Power Supply
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2015, 08:24:19 PM »
Quote from: Tenacious;783201
IIRC, the A3000D PS has an extra signal not common to other power supplies, even most of the other Amigas don't have it.  It is a 60 Hz AC signal (probably low voltage) that I believe was used for timing of the native video on the motherboard (maybe the FF?).  I can't remember.  

Naturally, the Amigas date to a time before the 3.3 VDC power rail.

I imagine Amigakit is on top of all of this with their adapter.

AFAIK all Amiga PSUs (except for the A4000 PSU) provide a 50/60 Hz Tick signal. However, most (but not all) Amiga mobos have a jumper which selects the Tick or Video blank signal for the system (CIA) timer.

So you can use a generic PSU with these jumper select mobos. The catch is when you switch from NTSC/PAL or to exotic video modes like Super72 then your system timing gets messed up. Also, you can't disable the Video signal with RTG software.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2015, 08:29:15 PM by SpeedGeek »