[BNM] [OT] PPC Mac Mini PSU wanted to borrow for a day.

[Paul Silver]

Hi Alan,

I can lend you the power lead & brick from my Mini for a day or few. I
haven't got it with me but can bring it to the Farm tonight if you'd
care to drop over for a quick, or indeed slow, pint and pick it up? BTW
I dunno what power rating it is, it's from a very early, base model G4
Mini.

Cheers

Paul

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:48:59 +0100, "Alan Pike" <alanpike at gmail.com>
said:
> Does anyone have an old PPC mac mini 85W power adaptor I could borrow for
> a
> few hours/a day? The rest of this is a bit dull/ranty, so stop reading
> now
> if you're likely to get bored.I've been given an old mac mini by a
> client,
> who had plugged the 18.5v output cable from the mac mini PSU into the
> 24.5v
> output socket of the apple cinema display PSU when plugging everthing
> back
> in after moving it  . . . spot the design flaw . . .  Apple were
> certainly
> "thinking different" that day . . . and people use different shaped power
> plugs for what reason?, or even, heaven forbid, sticking to a standard
> mail/female plug orientation, but then, I suppose, you could try to power
> the mini off the screen psu and vice versa. . .
> Anyhoo, the mac mini PSU seemed to come off worst in the ensuing battle
> of
> electrons (ie the screen  powers up but the mini doesnt), it appears to
> have
> no screws to open it, the stoopid plug is such a bizarre shape that I
> cant
> even get my voltmeter probes on the bleeping thing, so before I take a
> hammer to it to see what's inside the psu, I thought the best thing to do
> would be to borrow a mac mini psu . . . to 1. make sure the psu is
> actuially
> fritzed, and 2 check the mini is still functional . . .
> Screen's nice tho' . . .
> And while we're on the subject of "thinking different" can anyone tell me
> wtf is the point of what appears to be a 2 inch DVI to DVI extension
> cable
> that came with a clients mac a few years ago and ended up in my box of
> bits
> because I thought, that'll come in handy one day, what for I don't know.
> And
> I still dont. But i just got it out thinking it might be a DVI to VGA
> converter . . . errr, that'll be a no then. just a very short extension .
> .
> . don't get me wrong, love mac stuff, but sometimes I just think . . . .
> why?
> . . . and breathe.
> Ta.
> 
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