[Coco] Re: CoCo3P, more photos, new page.

RJRTTY at aol.com RJRTTY at aol.com
Mon Apr 19 02:05:42 EDT 2004


In a message dated 4/17/04 6:16:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
theother_bob at yahoo.com writes:

> PS: The solution to the 8v power problem (when using a PC power supply) is 
to
>  bypass the cap. Either jumper across it with a wire (as noted in the 
article)
> 
>  or go under the RF shield and short the capacitor's leads with solder.


   I thought of shorting the capacitor but that could cause loss of some
of the noise immunity the circuit was designed for.  I was also having
some reliability problems when the PC power supply provided the 24 volts.
In the end, it was less trouble for me to use the original supply transformer.


Roy



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