In article <4e5d7395b3tim@xxxxxxxxx>, Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In article <71416e5d4e.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Fryatt > <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip interesting stuff about PSU] > > All of which is irrelevant if we're quoting "5.06V on a spare > > connector", as seems to be the standard test around here. That's why I > > think the test is totally meaningless. It may always be true on an > > unexpanded Iyonix, but I would expect it to change when a second hard > > disc or similar is fitted (I suppose I could check that, now I've got a > > second disc fitted; if I get chance, I'll try to remember when I've got > > the current deadlines out of the way and I can 'afford' to break the > > machine). > I can wire a plug, or for that matter an entire theatre, but I am no > qualified electrician and these (potential) problems with an Iyonix PSU > leave me puzzled. We have a machine whose processor supposedly gobbles up > less power than a Plentyhum heater but whose PSU seems incapable of > delivering its meagre requirements. Is it that there is too little load > for tolerances to be met? Two hard drives here cause no problems, AFAICT. > Or are the PSUs a bit on the shoddy side? I suspect a dodgy component. Whether that make the PSU shoddy, I don't know. It's more likely that the relevant component isn't up to the specification it came with. -- From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey" Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11 --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support