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  1. herrEinsamkeit

    Interpreting PC Power Schemes

    Sorry, another correction, this time to my most recent: "maybe they chose a different scheme to distinguish themselves, a proprietary scheme similar to Dell's?" what I meant to say was similar as in both companies wishing to have proprietary schemes, not similar as in have a scheme actually...
  2. herrEinsamkeit

    Interpreting PC Power Schemes

    weird. Well, unless I'm developing some rare breed of color-blindness, these suckers are what they are, and are marked as I've mentioned above. In response to johnwm, I'm not certain as to what my Dell scheme actually is, I only opened it up once or twice, and neither time was I concerning...
  3. herrEinsamkeit

    Interpreting PC Power Schemes

    I'm thinking this computer must have been some sort of exception. We bought it as a refurbished NEC Ready 9522 sometime in the earlier 90's, it couldn't have been any earlier than '92 or '93, because it runs off of a Pentium. I know what you mean with the R-B-B-Y scheme though, I've seen that...
  4. herrEinsamkeit

    Interpreting PC Power Schemes

    oh. haha. jeez, the more i think of that the more obvious it seems. thanks.
  5. herrEinsamkeit

    Interpreting PC Power Schemes

    (ooh crap, didn't know about the timed output deal) but replying firstly to your question, I'm thinking of building it for the same reason that I'm making a gravity-driven rotary grinder out of wooden dowels and custom cut-and-filed gears and pullies: <i>there is simply no better way to...
  6. herrEinsamkeit

    Interpreting PC Power Schemes

    Hi all, i'm attempting to design+build a regulated power supply for an old computer, and i'm trying firstly to make sense of the old stock supply, and how the load components fit into the scheme. Taking the hard drive for example, the faceplate says: 5VDC --- 0.66A 12VDC --- 0.24A and the...

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