[Coco] 5 volt mod.

Christopher Hawks chawks at dls.net
Sat Jun 7 10:13:08 EDT 2008


John T Chasteen said the following on 06/06/2008 10:17 PM:
> Chris
> 
> Thanks for the circuit information to obtain 5 volt DC from the coco3 
> to power the Cloud9 CF IDE Adaptor. I Googled (5 volt regulator" and
> found that Radio Shack has a 7805 5 volt regulator (Part #276-1770).
> 
> So for I haven't figured out the polarity of the voltage that must be
> applied to the CF power connector. Hope I can find this out from the CF
> documentation. 

John:

	On the 4 pin connector on the adapter, +5 volts is the pin closest to the IDE 
connector. The middle 2 are ground. The other one (+12 volts on a disk drive) 
is probably not connected.

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