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- From: billw@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Bill Wiecking)
- Subject: Re: 25 MHz IIsi--another success story
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.110257.27660@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:02:57 GMT
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- In article <1fetjcINNbdr@agate.berkeley.edu> stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cliff Stoll) writes:
- >Well, it worked fine for me. Many thanks to all on the network!
- >
- >My Mac IIsi is now flying at 25 MHz ... the replacement took
- >about an hour. I spent most of this time disassembling the mac
- >and taking pictures; it's 10 minutes to actually unsolder the oscillator and
- >install the socket. A solder-sucker isn't much help, incidentally.
- >
- >System over here is IIsi w/17 MBytes of 80 nsec ram; quantum pro drive,
- >a Lapis 2 page B+W display card plugged into the pds-direct slot. No FPU.
- >The 68030 is labelled 20 MHz. Running system 7.1.
- >
- >I measured the temperature of several chips with a sensitive
- >recording temperature sensor. This meant taping the tiny thermistor
- >onto the top of the chip. Results:
- >
- >
- >68030 chip with 20 MHz clock 43.5 degrees C after 20 minutes of operation.
- >68030 chip with 25 MHz clock 44.0 degrees C after 20 minutes of operation.
- >
- >Ambient room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, fan running, but case open.
- >Thermistor calibrated with ice-water & boiling water - accurate within a
- >degree or so. Reads out to 0.5 degrees C.
- >
- >Conclusion: No heat sink is needed.
- >
- >
- >Curiously, the new 50 MHz crystal oscillator runs very hot. 55 degrees C.
- >The old 40 MHz crystal ran at about 30 degrees C.
- >The new one may be a weirdy. It's made by Fox and is from Korea.
- >I'll try a different oscillator next week & see how it goes.
- >
- >I photographed the surgery and wrote an article for the next
- >BMUG newsletter. My thanks for everyone's comments -- thanks for
- >sharing them on the Usenet!
- >
- >Cheers,
- >Cliff Stoll
-
- Hey, a silly question: I know the CPU is really the big generator of heat, but c
- ould there be some current imbalance induced by the 50 crystal being out of sync
- with the other three? I've never heard of putting a heat sink on a crystal befo
- re, but it seems that at 50 C it would be a good idea. I'll do a thermistor samp
- ling like you did with a sensornet A/D interface and see what the heating curve
- is like. Something is rotten here. Did anyone check into whether the ci has 6803
- 0-25 on the cpu?
- Just some ideas to bat around
- Bill
- Honolulu
-