Introduction and RK05J Drive cabling

tony duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 23 09:05:34 CST 2016


> The other thing to be aware of is the emergency head retract batteries are toast and should
>  be replaced with a 3.6v NiCd pack, that way if the power fails you don't trash a pack.

I thought originally it was a 4.8V pack (4 cells). Over here a common cordless telephone used the
same pack about 20 years ago, so spares for that (available quite easily) went in my RK05s...

The RK06/RK07 has an 8 cell pack, it's exactly 2 RK05 packs in series.

> They are really nice drives for saying they where DEC's first removable media hard drive, a 
> bit heavy to move but not that bad.

I can't get one onto the rack sliders on my own if it's fully assembled. I normally remove
the PSU and positioner and then it is quite easy...

-tony


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