Amiga PSU

[frailn]

I recently obtained six old Amiga's (3xA2000, 1xA3000, 2xA500) and a bunch of peripherals from an estate sale and sold them on eBay. I held back one A500 to sit next to her little C64 sister in the man cave. I have a two A500 PSU's left from the crazy eBay sale - a heavy one and a light one.

It occurs to me...the Amiga 500 PSU might be a good one-stop power solution for the MBFM. There were two PSU's created by Commodore for the Amiga 500 back in the eighties and nineties. One was linear (heavy) made in Germany. The other was switching (light) made in India or Asia, not sure. Here are the specs for the heavy linear version:

Type: A500 type 1

Part number: 312503-02

Current: 5V/2.5A * 12V/1.0A * -12V/0.1A

Total power: 25.7W

Might be a good one-power-cord solution. I'm at work, so I haven't looked to far into this solution. But, thought it might be good to post and get other's thoughts.

Edited November 3, 2009 by frailn

[nILS]

That should work nicely :)

[frailn]

That should work nicely :)

Sweet! I'll keep the switching PSU for my Amiga and use the linear for my MBFM. Thanks, nILS.

[Theta_Frost]

This is great! I'll go pick me up an Amiga PSU then!

[frailn]

And, since the Amiga 500 power port connector is impossible to find, and because who wants to destroy an Amiga 500 by pulling the power connector off of the motherboard, here's a nice little four pronger for rewiring the cable along with the matching port. I found it on Mouser.

KPPX_KPJX.pdf