For a brother in need...

[xlar54]

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

[Golan Klinger]

Where are you located?

[smf]

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

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

[xlar54]

Where 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.

[Mark Smith]

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

[Andrew Wiskow]

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

[StyleCHM]

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.

[StyleCHM]

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