Posted By
JledStev61
on 2020-09-07
14:49:57
|  Re: Questions about Plus4 Saver
I also have a 1/2 inch fan.
In pictures Ray Carlson connected to the C1 capacitor.
I'm not sure what he used as a board for his Saver.
Is it a grounding plate?
Should I use an unclad matrix board?
I have enough parts to make several versions.
For the trimmer resister version I do not have a non-polar capacitor.
But I hear if you put two capacitors together it will create
a non-polar capacitor.
The other requires no capacitors.
The c16 PSU is 9vdc only. Is this correct?
And center negative.
I can imagine many c16s are busted for people placing the wrong psu.
Want to hear a horror story?
I had a c16 once.
At a pawn shop I found a large box that looked discarded in the corner.
Curious I opened it and found a treasure.
A 1080 monitor.
2 data cassettes, one brown,
which I know today is the 1531.
A 1541 and 71 and a case of old software.
I removed these things to see what else was in the box...
A c16, a plus4, a c64 (the flat one and first I'd ever seen)
a 128, all the PSUs. A mouse.
Lots of cartridges and tapes.
The brown and white modems.
Probably more too but I can't recall all of it.
The entire box was $15.
I bought it brought it home.
This was 2002, before eBay, before YouTube.
Even though I had some of them before,
in 2002 I just considered them antiquated
and ended up giving them to a friend.
Today I kick myself for that decision.
At the time only diehard C= fans still cared about them.
Had never seen the C16 before.
When I found a power supply (center negative),
It just showed a black screen.
Everything else worked but I never tested the 1531.
I hate thinking about it today.
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