Recent content by 68krazy

Butch Vig has had interviews throughout the years where he talks about the hardware he has used in productions and in his own studio. He’ll get pretty nerdy with it and specify exact hardware/software/computers involved. (The liner notes for the Garbage album Version 2.0 even mention the...

@halkyardo Thanks for this tip, I just got one of these and the monitor staying on was really bugging me. Mine also did not have the power save option in the menu. With your instructions I was able to rig up the serial port on an old Windows 7 laptop and use PuTTY to send the magic command...

Hey @slipperygrey, I just got Netatalk working for the first time. Installation was an adventure since I’m a novice with Linux but I got there in the end, using Meson to install 2.4.1 and Webmin to set up and manage. Watching my SE/30 seamlessly connect to a share on my modern homelab server...

I am interested in one as well

I didn’t realize there was a standardized color code — thanks for pointing that out!

Hey everyone, I accidentally broke L1 on an SE logic board. I'd like to order a replacement from Digikey — does anyone know what the part is, and what the value is? It kind of looks like a resistor, but something tells me it's not a resistor.

@LaPorta I am the same. I do a mean recap, and try to be as proactive as possible about replacing components that are known to have a high failure rate. Anything more than that, though, and I have to ship it out to someone with actual troubleshooting and repair skills.

Does anyone know if any progress ever happened on this project? It’s a really cool idea that keeps popping back into my brain every month or so, but I have none of the skills necessary to contribute.

Hmmm.  If there's no glow in the neck of the tube then you have issues with your heater voltage.  Not sure if that is connected to the flyback or not.

Are you sure you need a new flyback?  You mentioned that you can still hear the high voltage "zzzzt" when you start the machine.

@PowerMac_G4 I saw your post about that in another thread — I'm sorry to hear about what happened! I googled the LG part number (6174z-1003g) and found that there was a replacement from HR Diemen.  HR Diemen was a well-known manufacturer of flyback replacements back in the day.  When I found...

Where are you located?  You might be near a forum member who would be willing to help you out.

More thinking out loud — I wonder what is considered an acceptable tolerance for capacitor values?  And I wonder how your capacitors would read when tested for ESR and current leakage (not physical electrolyte leakage). Badcaps.net had a pretty active forum about capacitors years ago.  I'm not...

What an incredibly thorough deep dive into the current health of your machine's capacitors — this is fascinating.  With all the debate about recapping in this hobby, actual data like this is a big step in the right direction. I don't know how to interpret your findings, but, on my iMac G3...