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- From: Ken@kenwyn.demon.co.uk (Ken)
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- Subject: Re: A2000 Power Compatibility?
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:57:57 GMT
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- On 20-Mar-96 20:59:34, Frank Russell wrote this about Re: A2000 Power
- Compatibility?;
-
- > Don't know if it's usual, but the PSU in my rev. 6 A2000 is a 250 watter as
- > standard. Going to a 230 watt IBM would be a crazy backwards step.
- > Incidently, my machine has 9 megs of Amiga ram, '030 accelerator, scsi
- > interface, 24 bit graphics card, 486/50 bridgeboard with 4 megs of onboard
- > IBM ram, ethernet card, vga ibm card, ibm in/out and floppy controller card,
- > quad spin scsi CD-ROM and two big hard drives in it, all running very
- > happily on the standard supply. No problems after several years! Supply
- > runs reliably and stays very, very cool. Says it all really.......
-
- My A1500 (UK A2000) had a 205 watt P/S, it also ran cool but died after
- 1 1/2 years of use. I found that most equipment prefers to be left running,
- switching on and off causes surges which puts extra load on the P/S and
- can cause early failures.
-
- > Cheers
-
- > Frank Russell
- > University of Ballarat
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- Ken...................
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