[Coco] Any problem with connecting 2 floppies to one power supply?

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John
I did that a long time ago and found no problems. I removed 
the "full hight" radio shack drive from the case and bolted 
in 2 half height drives, then I spliced another power 
connector into the power supply. This worked great for me for 
many years. I wont guarantee that it will work for you. There 
are situations which may cause both drives to use power 
simultaneously. The radio shack ribbon cable was not useable 
as is because the connector pins were missing etc. To get 
around this I just crimped on a connector which had all the 
pins. I may have just been lucky that the power supply was 
sufficient to drive both of the new half-height drives. The 
drives that I used may not have required as much power as the 
original. If you dont mind risking a burned out power supply 
then go ahead and try it. 

It might be better to use the small 3.5 inch floppies because 
the surely do not use as much power as the old 5.25 inch full 
height drives. There are some adaptor which will allow 
bolting these into the place of 5.25" drives.
Good luck
Eric  


---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:52:53 -0800
>From: "John Guin" <johnguin at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: [Coco] Any problem with connecting 2 floppies to 
one power supply?  
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
<coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have a singel floppy drive system for my coco I bought 
back in the 80s.  I
>have a second 5 1/4" drive to add to it and it fits inside 
the case, and I
>have a cable which allows two floppies.  The power supply is 
the problem -
>it only has one connector.  Is it possible to add a splitter 
which would
>power both drives?  Does the coco ever access both at the 
same time, and if
>not, can anyone see any problems with connecting 2 floppies 
to the single
>power supply?
>
>Thanks,
>John Guin
>
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