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Re: Amiga 3000 Battery and SCSI NVRAM & +5V shorts?
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 02, 2017, 07:19:27 PM »
Quote from: mechy;83369Anthony Hoffman has a great tutorial on clock circuit repair:  [url
http://amiga.serveftp.net/RTCrepair.html[/url]


Very good resource, even though its for a 4000, I've been able to do some mental gymnastics to keep track of the tests.  However, I ran into something odd.

With the 3000 daughtercard installed, I get a good solid continuous continuity tone from the +5V feed to ground.  With the daughtercard removed, its only a chirp (which I associate with capacitors charging).  The daughtercard looks pristine and I don't readily see anything that would suggest a short.

Should there be 'continuity' between +5V and ground with the daughtercard installed?  This seems to me to be a bad thing to have...
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Re: Amiga 3000 Battery and SCSI NVRAM & +5V shorts?
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2017, 07:21:02 PM »
Quote from: mechy;83369
Anthony Hoffman has a great tutorial on clock circuit repair


Very good resource and even though its for a 4000, I've been able to do some mental gymnastics to keep track of the tests.  However, I ran into something odd.

With the 3000 daughtercard installed, I get a good solid continuous continuity tone from the +5V feed to ground.  With the daughtercard removed, its only a chirp (which I associate with capacitors charging).  The daughtercard looks pristine and I don't readily see anything that would suggest a short.

Should there be 'continuity' between +5V and ground with the daughtercard installed?  This seems to me to be a bad thing to have...
Only Amiga *woo-woo* Makes It Possible
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Amiga 2000, 2MB Chip RAM, OS3.9, GVP Combo 030/22 13 MB, Supra 4MB
Amiga 3000, 16 MB RAM, OS3.9, A3640 v3.2 with 060 Processor, Picasso II, A2065, PCD-50B
Dead VA2000/CX :(
 

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Re: Amiga 3000 Battery and SCSI NVRAM
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2020, 06:32:30 PM »
I wonder if this could be what's wrong with my 3000T, scrambled NVRAM?

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