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

[John Guin]

Final follow up:

I finally got a Mitsubishi FD501 drive hooked in as the second drive and it 
works great (so far).
Thanks for all the help from everyone.

John


----Original Message Follows----
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Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Any problem with connecting 2 floppies to one power 
supply?
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:25:16 -0600

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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