US Power supply for GVP Impact A500

[Blatboy]

Yeah yeah yeah.  You got me.  I've been distracted by other things and now suddenly this project is back in sight of my red eye of Mordor.

I had certainly looked at all the links, and thought I was a little afraid to tax my A500 by giving power via the bus.  The GVP is an earlier model (it looks beefier than the series II) and has a big honkin' old SCSI spindle drive in it...

So, as Mech suggested, I bought an old A500 power supply, and wanted to mod it.  I now know the pinouts of the GVP... they don't use the -5 and -12 volt rails...

If I use the old A500 power supply and have nothing connected to the -5 and -12V rails, that should be ok, yes?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Not trying to beat a dead horse, but something like this would probably work, and draw next to no power at all:

http://imall.iteadstudio.com/scsi2sd.html

:smack:

[Blatboy]

Which is a great solution, and I wish I would have known about that before.  Hmmm.  I bet that would work in my old 68K Macintosh machines as well.  

However, I guess I just want to try to hack this old GVP sidecar into working...just to see if I can... play with it a little bit, and maybe I'll get rid of it and upgrade to the SCSI2SD.  Sorry if I'm the one beating the deceased equine situation.  Haha.  

But of course using the SCSI2SD still does use the old sidecar.  Very interesting.

THANKS!