CD32 power pack

[leirbag28]

lempkee wrote:  i use a fmv card yes but i have a switch for the fastmem and as soon as i use the fmv it disconnect the 8mb jumper and swith to 4mb! , very easy..


Get outta here!  really?  it does this automatically? or do you have to hit a switch? wont this damage one of your boards?

 I have software that lets me run Video CD's from workbench and SCALA in full screen from my SX-1, so If i had this little hack of yours,are ou saing that I will have 8megs and then when I tell my software to run a VideoCD that all of the sudden the 8megs switches to 4 megs and then runs the VCD wihout me touching any hardware? and then switches back once the VCD stops playing?


if so.......LET ME HAVE THAT HACK!

[Abou27]

@cyberus

Nice link.  I was really after more detail, though... ;-)

[Stedy]

@Abou27
My stock CD32 was rated at 17 Watts. It would not power my SX32 Pro + HDD + Floppy.

@Leirbag28

Have you had problems with the SX32 shuttle board too?

I have to position mine correctly for the damn thing to work. I soldered wires from the PSU to the CPU to overcome the supply drop problem.

[leirbag28]

@Stedy

"Have you had problems with the SX32 shuttle board too?"

No I have had no problems with this board,but did with my First SX32pro 50Mhz.............the problem was that the heat the 030 and FPU were generating was causing the SX32 circuit board to become bent out of shape going downwards till it stopped functioning. I still have that board. But the original CD32 power supply, powered it completely fine even when completely loaded and then some. As I said earlier, if your CD32 power cant handle the SX32, its because of the way your particular backplate of your SX32 handles the power, and I dont think there is anything you can do about it but add a bigger power supply. Also I soldered a fan directly to the CD32 power connector rather than take it from the Disk drive port as i usually did......even though my SX32 works fine like that, I wanted to have a floppy always connected.

 My hopes one day is to connect the FMV card at the same time with he SX32 both internally.