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That's a huge problem for Portables. I suggest that you don't run any more power through the system until the capacitors have been replaced and all the leaked capacitor fluid damage has been repaired. The leaking electrolyte causes tons of problems, everything from primary voltage regulator...

Is he saying that there is no sad mac error code without the battery eliminator installed, and getting a sad mac error with the battery eliminator installed? According to the Sad Mac Error Codes reference, that's a memory error saying all 16 bits are not responding properly. But there are no...

The ferrite bead mostly helps with interference. I would reinstall it, just wrap the outside closed with electrical tape.

It's out of stock for the 2023.10a version, but kits for 2023.09a and earlier are available. No specific ETA, I just need to print brackets and put things together. The M5126 Backlit Portable actually doesn't have a Hybrid Module. Instead, Apple directly embedded the power regulation...

1: I haven't received feedback about which Portable versions the Battery Eliminator has been used in. To my knowledge the Backlit's Modem slot is the same as the original M5120 so there should be no electrical difference between them. 2: The PCB does contain a provision for a 9v battery holder...

There's one additional thing you could try, which is voltage injection and the "owee" check. Step 1: Use a current-limited supply and inject about an amp of current Step 2: Touch stuff until you find something really hot (hence owee) Alternately, do the current injection and use a thermal...

SCSi adapter with blinkenlights is back in stock. Sorry for the delay, didn't notice the "out of stock" notification.

Parts and boards are now ordered so I can make more of the Battery Eliminator. And a hopefully-production PCB for HIDHopper ADB.

I'm not an expert on the 170. But a short should be causing a lot of heat to be generated by the component which failed. Could be a chip, a capacitor, a mosfet, a resistor, tons of possibilities.

I'm pretty sure it should drop the output voltage when the current limit is reached. If it's dropping to 1.1v then either the adapter is bad or there's actually a short and it's protecting the system.

November 11 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Eric (eric), Justin (jdmcs), Kai Robinson Absent: Josh (Drake), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos), Bruce (Branchus) Agenda: Item 1: Calendar Competition Notes: We've totally lagged behind schedule on this...

The Mac Portable Battery Eliminator is available now, assembled only, in low quantity. HIDHopper for ADB will hopefully be next, just needed to update the PCBs a bit to handle part clearances. So those PCBs will be ordered soon and then it's a matter of designing printable cases.

Assuming your power adapter actually has a 1.5 amp current limiter that works properly, you'll be fine. The 1.5 amp current limit is for a few reasons: The original lead acid battery charge current was not allowed to exceed 1.5 amps Apple's battery charge circuitry might not be able to...

Hardware and Project Updates: BlueSCSI Desktop Hardware: The updated and more affordable BlueSCSI Desktop 50 Pin design has passed my local testing on a PowerMac 7300, Beige G3, and Mac Portable. It removes the microSD slot and USB-C power connector, but in doing so also cuts the cost enough...

My only suggestion is to add a diode, to avoid possible back-power issues in the future. Don't want your external device feeding termpower to try and run the entire laptop.

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You can look with a hex editor, yes. Check between offset 0x8000 and 0xBFFF, that's where the SCSI driver partition lives. Some possible landmarks (pulled from a 6.0.8 image): * "CMS_SCSI" near the beginning * "RM 7.4" around 0x8780 * SCSI Driver version around 0x9EB7 * HFS Manager version...

This is interesting, and strange. I believe there have been reports in the past of SCSI drivers not playing nicely together and causing corruption like this. If you use SCSI Director Pro and install the same driver on both images, does this data copy corruption issue still happen? The SCSI...

A Pico W that does not have the firmware installed cannot function as a BlueSCSI. The firmware is what makes everything work. Did that Pico W have firmware installed when you first tested in the IIci?

As mentioned before, I regularly update the firmware on test units without removing the Pico from the board. Generally I remove it from the SCSI bus, then do the USB update method.