25 Oct
2015
25 Oct
'15
10:02 p.m.
Even a 10W resistor will get really hot. I embed two 5W resistors into a
pentium class CPU cooler for a good compromise on space/thermal concerns.
You can see a pic on my site here:
http://asterontech.com/Asterontech/next_adb_conversion.html
Internal to the cube, I've found using a 5W appliance bulb to be the
easiest.
--
Brian Archer
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
wrote:
On 2015-10-25 8:56 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-10-25 8:42 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
I got a really helpful response from Rob Blessin, from whom I bought the
splitter cable, along the same lines. My supply must be the 152 type that
requires a load.
Boiling down all the info so far, it seems that a 20 Ohm resistor across
-12V and GND (maybe 12V and GND would work equally well?) would dissipate
7.2W, which seems enough to keep the supply running (that other link talked
about a 5W load, so this seems a good margin).
Now, 7.2W is more than one resistor in say a DB-19 shell could safely
dissipate, so I'm maybe looking at some kind of ambiently cooled board. Rob
provided these links:
Here: http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3736 and
version 1.0 megaload here:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3616&highlight=load…
So I'm wondering what kind of thermal design is both easy and safe. A
single 10W resistor exposed to the air? Or should I spread it over a few
resistors on a little board that might have a DB-19 male at the Cube end.
Just noob brainstorming here.
--Toby
No- if it works with the standard display, the
supply is fine.
Now that that's clear, I recall some cube supplies would do this
without a load for a display- I used to test them by triggering the
power-on pin, and seem to remember this behavior occurring if I didn't
have a big-ass resistor attached across the pins that normally
supplied power to the CRT.
Try getting a dummy load on there, the circuitry you have may not be
putting enough load on the lines that usually run the CRT to keep the
supply in a steady state.
Even though I'm an electronics noob, that seems pretty logical. Can you
spell out what kind of resistor I'd need?
Is it the 20 Ohm 20W between pin 12 (-12V) and GND that is mentioned here:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1374&sid=80e5f0626e…
Is 20W the right rating?
Thanks!
--Toby