Hey folks, Im looking for a 1541-II at a fair price. Im really needing the power supply actually. Rather than fight the ebay bids, Im wondering if a kind, generous sole would consider giving one up to a good home. PM me if you can help. It is...after all... the season of giving :rodna:
;) thanks
Where are you located?
Quote from: xlar54Hey folks, Im looking for a 1541-II at a fair price. Im really needing the power supply actually. Rather than fight the ebay bids, Im wondering if a kind, generous sole would consider giving one up to a good home. PM me if you can help. It is...after all... the season of giving :rodna:
;) thanks
The reason that 1541-ii's are expensive is that everyone is buying them for the power supply to go with their 1581 kit.
You could build one, but I believe the 1541-ii needs a common 5v & 12v ground & the only self contained power supplies I could find had seperate grounds ( the oceanic drives can however use these ). If you can find one that is suitable then just whip the current end off and solder on a new DIN connector.
If you can't get one already built then you should be able to use a couple of voltage regulators to generate a 5v and 12v signal from any DC power supply ( LM7805 for 5v and LM7812 for 12v ). If the DC power supply is already a regulated 12v then you might get away without the 12v regulator.
http://www.iguanalabs.com/7805kit.htm
Quote from: gklingerWhere are you located?
gklinger - sent you a PM as there was something else we were talking about. But Im in middle Tennessee for the thread. And thanks to the other reply about why they have become so popular / expensive.
I've a 1541-II/1581 power supply here going begging ... not much use to me as it is 110V but I guess that is what you want ? Cover the postage and it's yours (which might be worth more that it is! :-)
Mark
Interesting... I had more 1541-II/1581 power supplies than I knew what to do with... Sold them all one by one on eBay over time, and most of them went for just a couple dollars... Didn't seem to be a very high demand item.
-Andrew
I run my 1581 on a switch mode supply out of an old rackmount switch. But basically any AT or ATX supply will do it.
actually I think jppbm.com sell the supplies seperately if you're still looking.
I bought some kits from him without supplies (no use to me, 110V) so he should have some spare :D