On 2/18/2013 5:07 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
OK - I had a 32/700 (it's parked at NMoC these days, but I expect it's
just too big and heavy to ever ship it to my place in the US), which
looks like the 32/600 in the far right of your photo. Biggest darn
single PCB I've ever seen in any machine, I think! 68030, 32MB RAM
(not including ECC), Ethernet, couple of 8-line terminal boards, SCSI,
and 2 x 300MB disks.
Mine is huge too. I bet they aren't so different.
I don't know how much commonality there would be
between the two,
although it would seem good manufacturing sense to share parts and
functionality as much as possible.
Does your system show any signs of life at all? I *think* my system
needed the large internal battery connected (and vaguely-chargeable)
before it would fire up, even though that was supposedly only there as
a memory back-up during power-fail conditions.
The power supply does show some
activity when plugged in. It puts out
+6.75v to the battery and the +5v test point is up. None of the other
test points show anything. There is a switch on the PS for battery
backup power to ram. In the on position the PS fan spins but, I don't
see any other test points coming up. The +5 is getting to the power
switch and the switch is working fine.
The power switch connects by ribbon cable to the back plane. The back
plane is completely covered by a steel plate on the sides and bottom.
Without taking apart the whole machine I can't see where it is actually
going.
This originally had a bad battery with corroded terminals. I bought a
new one off ebay but, I never really checked it. It's some no name
Chinese thing. I probably need to see if it is actually fully charging
and holding it. I just plugged it in and checked and it is charging up
slowly anyway. I'll actually check the volts this time but, I left it
plugged in about 7 hours before and it still wouldn't start up when I
tried. Maybe it's a bum battery though.
I've also found some old emails which suggest that I had to replace a
triac and resistor near the AC input in my machine's PSU at some point
(it's been too long that I don't recall if the machine was DoA when I
got it, or if the PSU failed later)
This one was working fine before being turned off for many years. When I
turned it on again for the first time nothing different happened than
does now. No smoke or any sounds. Just nothing at all when I move the
switch from off to on.