Hi,
while working on the Creativision PS/2 keyboard interface i have removed my CV motherboard from the case.
I am talking about an MKII board.
I recognized, that (the enormous) aluminium heatspreader gets REALLY hot during operation. It cools off the 7805 and the 7812 voltage regulators
looking at the board i found an odd thing that puzzles me:
for one voltage line, there are 4 diodes (that work as a bridge rectifier)
but then i only found 2 additional diodes for the other line...
As i understand it (and found in all the PSUs i have opend) the external PSU consists of a transformer which outputs 2 voltages (9V AC and 16V AC) with 2 seperate windings...
using 2 diodes to rectify i only found solutions with a centertapped transformer... (that would only need 3 external wires, like on a TI99/4a PSU)
Any ideas to clarify this are very welcome (as i love to understand how things work :0))
Are there differnt external PSUs? for MKI and MKII?
PS: the schematic shows 4 rectifier diodes for each line (at least for the MKI)
Cheers, TOM:0)
Creativision PSU questions
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