C64 Power Supply information

[dcer10]

Hi All,

Ive been having some trouble with my SID and its PSU (not the board, the actual PSU brick) and I came across this article on the web which I found interesting and thought others might like to read it. It shows how to test out the PSU (they actually use a very odd way to do it I think, use a multimeter instead!!).  Its also got some other info about the PSU that might be interesting background reading (or not) :)

http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm/pstester.txt

All the best,

John

[Mr modnaR]

that's a cool link, thanks.

[dcer10]

Not really MB related, but I also saw this link:

http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/

Which is awesome if you like the history of the commodore.

All the best,

John

[moebius]

It shows how to test out the PSU (they actually use a very odd way to do it I think, use a multimeter instead!!).

Hi,

The test procedure is not that strange at all: It uses lamps as artificial load to stress test PSU for faults.

But as You said, checking for correct voltages is good enough (for us)

Moebius