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PSU for duplicator problem, need help.

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playgroundtwister

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A friend of mine's video/photography business started to take off recently. He's getting flooded with calls that he's computer burner based setup couldn't keep up with the demand for copies. After building him an Intel based video editing machine a few months back, he asked me if I could build him a duplicator which I thought was pretty straight forward after reading some articles about it. After spending less than half on parts of what it would cost him to buy a ready made one, I started assembling it. When it came to the PSU part, I hit a roadblock. Aside from the usual molex connector, there was this leads that look like this.
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The Acard 2030T controller manual doesn't specify any other connection aside from the four pin molex power connector. I tried shorting the green and white one to see if it powers up but not even the PSU fan spins. Been searching the web for four days to find an answer but to no avail. Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
That wire comes out of the power supply? What model/brand is it? I've never seen such a thing.

Short the only green wire to any black wire on a standard ATX PSU connector to turn it on. No idea what that weird connector does, but without the main PSU power being on there's probably nothing flowing to those so shorting them won'd do anything.
 
Instead of cursing the darkness and fumbling around, send an email to Acard Corp. support along with that picture, and request the ID/pin out of the wires in that connector. (support@acard.com)

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Originally posted by: corkyg
Instead of cursing the darkness and fumbling around, send an email to Acard Corp. support along with that picture, and request the ID/pin out of the wires in that connector. (support@acard.com)
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That would be my next move. I just like my chances of getting an answer here than with Acards tech support.
 
Originally posted by: playgroundtwisterThat would be my next move. I just like my chances of getting an answer here than with Acards tech support.
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Understand - but that is a rather specialized piece of equipment that most users have never even seen. All you really need is a wiring diagram for the connector.

Us peons are used to 4 wire Molexes. 🙂

5 wires - could be a single common ground, plus two pairs for different rail voltages. ? Does a VOM tell you anything?

 
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