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With that said, I don't want our "talk about the future" to discourage people from buying what is available right now. "Innovation" is all about 改善 KAIZEN, which is the quest to make something better. That can and should take place. But if we always wait for the future, we will never cease...

Ooooooooooh! Please post some photos, Kay. There are so few on the internet now. Honestly, if a future BlueSCSI v2 could be made smaller with a more expensive 4-layer PCB, and if someone could make a 3D-printable clone of that HitchHiker plastic case so that a smaller BSv2 would fit inside...

The really neat thing about the SpeedCard is the same for Zane's forthcoming accelerator — either can be disabled at cold boot, allowing you to use the SE with its stock 8MHz 68000 processor. The SE/30 is in many ways a better Mac than the SE, so most people with one of those may wonder why...

@Kai Robinson When I first powered on my board, I guess I was blessed or lucky because it bonged and worked fine on the first try. But I do know you had issues getting your board to work initially. Did you ever get the symptoms @iPhil64 is describing — no bong and hissing from the speaker?

A truly lovely build, Philippe! I can't wait to hear the result of your first power-on test! Fingers crossed! 🤞

@YMK Thanks for the detailed info. I have the aforementioned parts on order to upgrade my own CC Analog Board. Just to confirm, how long did you have your CC switch on before you took the Flir temperature measurements? And were you running anything processor intensive or just letting it sit...

Much better than the Levco SuperMac SpeedCard I am using right now, which has the sound problem and doesn't have a fix, and which has a more bothersome method to disable the accelerator. Absolutely fantastic, Zane!

I don't know about everybody else, but I'm extremely excited by this update, Zane! Amazing work!

For CC owners who want to upgrade their own Analog Boards, here's the Replacement Parts List compiled thus far... RL62: 47Ω 5W 5% Axial Resistor — DigiKey | Mouser DL21/22: Remove 2 stock parts and replace with 1pc of 1N5355B 5W 18V Zener — DigiKey | Mouser RL22: 100Ω 5W 5% Axial Resistor —...

If indeed @Branchus is correct about RF11 being 390Ω (which means the stripe which looks Yellow in his video is in fact White), then with a Gold 5% tolerance, your measured resistance should lie between 370.5Ω & 409.5Ω. But you measured 363Ω, which perhaps indicates that burned resistor is...

A type-K temperature sensor attached to a multi meter would be able to verify the temperature measurements made by the Flir. The metal tip on the wire of the temperature sensor with need to be strapped onto the resistor using a wire tie. Although circuit boards are used as heatsinks all the...

Thanks for the extensive testing and photos. The 1N5237B (DF2) seems to be a 1/2W 8.2V Zener. And from your Flir hot-spot test, I see that DF2 is getting quite hot, along with RF11. Also is interesting to see that your massive 5V RL62 replacement still rises to 90.6°C. I agree that RL22...

Another thing that has me baffled is why there is hot-glue only on that RF11 resistor. There are a number of raised resistors on the board, but they don't have hot glue on them. What is so special about RF11 that necessitated hot glue? Hmmm...

DRIVE Right now, I am seriously thinking about buying that $10 mSATA 128GB drive from NewEgg and getting it shipped to my daughter since she will fly back to Japan at the end of April when her semester concludes. ADAPTER I found what appears to be the same mSATA to IDE adapter that @trag kindly...

I assume you swapped out your burned RF11 as well, because it looks quite burned indeed... On my board it looks like this... Looks like RED, YEL, BLK, BRN, but BRN must be GOLD. But RED, YEL, BLK, GLD = 24Ω, which can't be right. If we say it is ORG, YEL, BLK, GLD, that is only 34Ω...

I am not an expert on those cables, so I cannot say exactly what the thinking is. But there is a tiny amount of resistance in any set of wires, and that always means a tiny voltage drop. I doubt there's enough resistance in your typical flat SD card extender to necessitate any special...

Oh. So it seems the "cable" being discussed is the ultra thin ribbon cable of SD card extenders, not a SCSI cable that I had been thinking until now. I have two SD card extenders and didn't have issues with either in my testing of BlueSCSI v1, although I've not tested them yet with v2 because...

Thank you for that clarification! When I made my VGA mod video, I spent a lot of time researching the matter because there was a fair amount of incorrect or misleading info out there on the web. Even in the Doping Mac book mentioned in my video, I found a small error. And while the info about...

I personally think most CC owners should swap out those two Zeners because every single Analog Board I've see has scorch marks on the PCB underneath them. And even if the stock Zeners are still working, I'd feel better to raise them up on their legs at least 1cm off the PCB for better airflow...