The Brick

[that_punk_guy]

Yeah, my A1200's PSU was way heavier than my A500's too. It's almost like the prototype A1200 PSU got penis envy and snuck into the design department one night.

Suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, I need something to touch with my feet when I'm sat at a computer. However my Miggy's cord was shortened for reasons I don't quite recall so my brick spent most of its time on the desk.

[alx]

My A1200 PSU was filled with, what looked like resin... that made it really heavy... my A500 PSU was just a transformer in a box..

My 25W A1200 PSU is stupidly light - hardly seems like there's anything in there.  But I've borrowed another A1200 with one looking identical, but weighing about as much as the heavy A500 brick.  Anyone know the difference between the two A1200 ones?

[odin]

I do...one's light and the other's heavy  :-P.

Seriously though, do they have a different power rating?

[Stedy]

From my handy little table on PSUs you get the following:

Type    Part number 5V current  12V current -12V current
A500    312503-02   2.5A        1.0A        0.1A
type 1
Heavyweight
         
A500 type 2 (lightweight design)
        312503-03  4.5A     1.0A        0.1A

A600/A1200 PSU
   391029-02   3.0A    0.5A        0.1A
Same part number in small and large case sizes!

CD32
                    2.0A     0.5A        N/A
   
All figures obtained by reading the labels on the PSUs.

Sorry if the text is screwed up.

[Omegaman]

 Pssst!....the resin in some of the A1200 psu's was sponsored and paid for by the peripheral manufacturers to make us all think that we had a beast of a power supply and could go on adding things indefinitely...it was a conspiracy, I tell you....I would say more but theyre watching me.....

[Trooper]

Stedy wrote:
From my handy little table on PSUs you get the following:

Type    Part number 5V current  12V current -12V current
A500    312503-02   2.5A        1.0A        0.1A
type 1
Heavyweight
         
A500 type 2 (lightweight design)
        312503-03  4.5A     1.0A        0.1A

A600/A1200 PSU
   391029-02   3.0A    0.5A        0.1A
Same part number in small and large case sizes!

CD32
                    2.0A     0.5A        N/A
   
All figures obtained by reading the labels on the PSUs.

Sorry if the text is screwed up.

Yep!, As they say, Always read the label. :-D

Trooper

[CU_AMiGA]

Stedy wrote:
From my handy little table on PSUs you get the following:

Type    Part number 5V current  12V current -12V current
A500    312503-02   2.5A        1.0A        0.1A
type 1
Heavyweight
         
A500 type 2 (lightweight design)
        312503-03  4.5A     1.0A        0.1A

A600/A1200 PSU
   391029-02   3.0A    0.5A        0.1A
Same part number in small and large case sizes!

CD32
                    2.0A     0.5A        N/A
   
All figures obtained by reading the labels on the PSUs.

Sorry if the text is screwed up.

Hello,

Good table there man! :-) The A500 40-odd WattPSU (old brick style) PSU i use is used to power up: A1200/4g HDD/Blizzard 1260+64MB RAM/1FDD. I have had no problems with this. I didn't even bother attempting with an A1200 PSU, maybe would have blown up. My A1200 PSU was a light/flimsy bugger, much like the one packed in the A600.

The warmest PSU i have known is the old C64 PSU, now they could keep your feet warm! :-)

Regards,

[Managarm]

After hearing all this I can't help but wonder why the A1200, which is technically superior and in many ways a successor to the A500 would have a feebler power supply.

[CU_AMiGA]

Managarm wrote:
After hearing all this I can't help but wonder why the A1200, which is technically superior and in many ways a successor to the A500 would have a feebler power supply.

Like the great DoomMaster said "Commodore started cutting production costs after the A2000" :-D

Regards,