S100 address buss troubleshooting

[Richard A. Cini]

Interestingly, in this unit, the front panel power switch is not used.
There is a jumper on the PC board which bridges the connector for the
switch. A new power switch was inserted in the back panel and wired
directly in the line.

About the UL listing, I thought it interesting how exposed line voltage
was. It's very easy to touch line voltage if you're not careful.


Rich

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>> Be careful after turning off the computer and don't pull the cards 
>> until you are sure the voltage levels have dropped
>
> For that matter, if yours has a power switch on the front panel, be 
> careful what you touch in the vicinity of that switch, even after 
> you've turned it off!
>
> The rightmost switch was truly a "user wires it how he wants" switch, 
> and when you bought an IMSAI it came with artwork to let you make a 
> transparency layer that matched the function you chose.  (Which is why

> I find these arguments about keeping original front panel 
> transparencies so amusing.)
>
> Tim.


All of the S100 systems I've dealt with have had the line power exposed 
somewhere, none would ever pass UL testing.


Randy
www.s100-manuals.com