Recent content by jibsaramnim

Fantastic, well done! It's so nice to see one more Mac saved :). Also feeling quite the envy here from the other side of the world. Here I am thinking if I can really justify spending $170 shipping for a $110 Mac LC. Yes, very envious indeed 😅. Thank you for sharing your story!

Out of curiosity as a fellow CC fan quite curious about your LCD replacement project; would a 1024x768 panel like the Eyoyo one @JDW has mentioned in some of his videos perhaps be a viable, pixel perfect option?

If you are using an adapter to connect your SSD, it might also be worth trying to see if using a different adapter or SSD makes a difference. If you have no other adapters and a working IDE HDD, it might be worth switching to that just to see if it makes any difference. Slightly unrelated, but...

Follow-up; It was indeed an oopsie in the description, the part being sold is a 1N5344B / 5W diode. Luke has updated the product description already, with the wiki update being imminent too I believe. Thanks again for catching this! It could have been rather confusing for potential buyers...

Great catch, and done! I will follow-up here when I hear back from Luke from Console5 on this.

Slightly belated response from me on this, apologies. I had heard back from Luke from Console5 but didn't get around to wading through my inbox until today. Luke from Console5 shared this with me: The product listing and Wiki page have also been updated to include the relevant information...

Yes, that indeed was my intended meaning, quite good to have that be made extra clear, thank you!

Same here, I'm glad it measured correctly. I've reached out to Luke to ask about this (and to ask if he's able to put detailed specs in his product listing as-well as update the Console5 wiki), I'll follow up with any updates I might get pertaining this! Indeed I did yes. I understand that...

Apologies for the belated response. I was able to measure the resistance of the resistor yesterday, and can happily report that it does measure correctly at ~100Ω. I was working on the analog board of my CC I too was scratching my head, as as I couldn't make sense of its value based on its color...

This might be a good place to mention that Luke from Console5 has graciously answered my request of turning your list of diodes/resistors into a ready to buy kit. His kits have been a life saver for folk like me who don't really have easy access to Mouser or the like. Here's the link, in case it...

Wow, what a journey!

Interesting. The "MacBatt" CR2032 solution I'm using seems to be lasting much longer than that. Since my CC has been a work-in-progress due to one particular issue it's been having that I've not yet been able to solve, but for the ~1.5 years I've had it so far and with it off most of the time...

Oh yes, totally get that. Even with modern replacements like those CR2032 adapters, with us not really being able to use these macs as frequently as we could back in the day, you're bound to run into empty batteries again sooner or later. I wonder, as your CC is running some version of Mac OS...

Thanks for the thoughtful response JDW! I get that from a power consumption point of view this wouldn't have considered problematic, especially when it was released. For me I was considering this more from the point of view of seeing several components remain live that get so very hot. I am not...

Ever so slightly off-topic, but do you or anyone else happen to know if keeping parts of a Macintosh hot/live like this was common in those days, and if so why? I had always sort of assumed that this was just one of the several quirks of the odd little duckling that is the CC, but I don't know...