I saw that, here are the instructions also:
How to modify the Mac Classic for 4mb onboard as seen on Adrian's Digital Basement
** Remove two chips:
Remove UL1 CAS PAL (no longer needed!)
Remove UH6 74LS174 (no longer needed!)
** Modify system to think it has 4MB on the motherboard:
Pin 13...
It will start, even with the original power supply, the problem is the power manager can get confused, resetting it helps. It's also easy to install a battery, boot and remove it, you can shut it down and as long as it doesn't loose power it will still boot so maybe a small cap across the...
I did some experimenting, and here's what I noticed:
When I used with a battery installed, it kicked off at 2A, but that dropped down to 1.5A pretty fast.
Without the battery? It started at 0.5A and quickly went down to 0.35A.
I've got a SCSI2SD inside. If you throw in a regular hard drive...
Recently, I hooked one of my portables to a lab supply capable of giving 10 amps, it only pulled 1.6 amps. With that being said, it did have a battery in it, but the battery was somewhat depleted. Maybe I should try without and see what the current draw is.
If you look here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130820134155/http://www.bomarc.org/catalogsmenu.php
I don't have:
APPLE M5409/M5416 POWERBOOK 170/140
I also don't have a bomarc se/30
and it would be nice to have the power supply stuff...
Both of my Color Classics have 575 Boards, but I offer you a community sourced schematic: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gB029UsD3JoRYssmSmX2rUhhPEoVPhed/view?usp=sharing