[Coco] source of +5v on coco to drive HxC floppy emulator?

[Juan Castro]

I'm only familiar with Brazilian clones for now. Is the CoCo 3 PS an
external brick?

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Brian Sturk <bsturk at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've done some searching on the web and it seems the only port(s) on my
> > Coco3
> > that can supply +5V are the joystick ports.  I need +5V and approximately
> > .5
> > amps of current to drive the HxC floppy emulator which I plan on using
> > with my
> > Coco.  That seems like a lot of current for a joystick, but I haven't
> been
> > able to find out if that is suitable or not.
> >
> > Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You could also tap 12 volts and use a resistor to drop the voltage to
> 5V. But from what I recall, the PS is pretty taxed already, so a
> wall-wart might be a better idea... I ripped/replaced the PS in my
> customized CoCo with a small AT-style PS from an old Packard Bell.
> About the only thing that PB was ever good for ;)
>
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