In article <4E2C23CA.6020109@xxxxxxxxxx>, John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24/07/2011 14:35, Tim Hill wrote: [Snip] > > Is there a way to bypass the soft start circuit altogether in an > > Iyonix by [bre|m]aking a link somewhere? > > > hi > not really > soft start(!) Sorry, is there another name for this on 'yonices? Power On seems a misnomer, as the power (switch) is already on! Perhaps what we have is a literal 'Start' button. > is a 2 nand gate cmos set reset flipflip feeding the > poweron lead of the power supply. it uses software logic 0 to turn off, > and hard contact to gnd via the power on push button to turn on Ah, I see. Thanks for that. Looking at wikipedia (ATX) I see that with ATX PSUs "Connecting pin 8 and pin 16 (pin 14 in 20-pin ATX power supply) together will turn ATX power supply on". So it can be done but not simply. -- Production Support Services http://www.tightfittheatre.co.uk/services/ Web and IT services http://timil.com/ Training Consultancy http://timil.com/beech/ Cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone/ Genuine Usenet addresses http://www.invalid.org.uk/ --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support List-related queries to iyonix-support-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx