For me the most interesting is that Sam is able to run without that 12V.
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From: "Nev Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: Sam Power supply
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:16:48 -0000, "Robert Wilkinson"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've just been talking to a friend of mine that used to run a computer
> > shop 10 years ago and was a distributor for the Sam. He has just told
> > me that he bought 50 power supplies form Either MGT or Samco
> > ( I can't remember who he said it was) and he still has them.
> > These supplies are black and marked as Amstrad, the Amstrad
> > CPC 464 and 128 used identical looking supplies to the Sam
> > except for the colour.
> > Does anyone know if MGT did any internal modifications to these
> > Amstrad supplies before painting them, and selling them as Sam
> > supplies.
> >
> > Bob Wilkinson.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >From the original Amstrad PSU a TV modulator is added and a couple of
> resistors are removed on the 5V reg to boost the output. However,
> because the sam takes so little from the 12V supply they also tend to
> burn out the 12V zener as it has to sink too much of the excess
> current, so the 12V series resistor often has to be changed for a
> higher value.
>
> Apart from that, they are very much the same.
>
> hth
>
>
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