Fully soldered and ready to see it’s first electrons. I did leave the expansion connector off for now, it’s not essential for operation and leaving it off offers the ability to scope the bus at it’s location. <\/p>\n
The only surprise so far, is that the large heat sink extends a tiny bit beyond the edge of the board. Reviewing pictures of the original shows the same thing, so all is well. I was a bit worried about how the large 5 volt regulator and heat sink would go in, but no issues at all. I put a little thermal grease between the regulator and the heat sink and bolted it in with some 6-32 by 3\/8″ screws I found at Home Depot. <\/p>\n
I’m not real happy with my decoupling cap selection, since they are much smaller than the original. I’ll probably replace them at some point.<\/p>\n
First test will be of the power supply without ICs installed. That will take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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