Now that Flickr has gone back to giving us faithful users another punch in the nose with their 1024px photo resolution limitation, I thought it best to present some hi-rez versions of my original SE/30 pics here, from back in 2006. That was the era before SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI -- when everyone still used spinning platter hard drives and MacCon Ethernet. I was running up against the power output of my stock PSU at the time, so I crafted an interesting rig whereby I was able to jam in a secondary PSU to power only the hard drive. I even was able to add a fan on top of that PSU for added cooling. I no longer use that setup today, but it's still fun to see those old pics and ponder the days gone by.




Secondary PSU from the back.
I really had that thing bolted on well!
If you click the photo and zoom-in you can see the black rubber I glued onto the metal plate to ensure that no solder joints were ever going to touch the metal.
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Some pics of the fan I used. It was mounted with plastic wire ties and scrap plastic. Looks quite precarious but it never fell out of position.
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Here's how close the secondary PSU came to the CRT yoke. No issues with it that close either.
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I wired-tied the flyback-cup-wire to the GND wire to keep it from touching the secondary PSU.
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I drilled holes into the metal chassis so I could then use these stainless steel parts to keep the PSU bolted in place. The rig was rock solid stable. I still have the metal mount and the PSU, keeping them both in storage. If you look closely at the third photo (one at right) below, you can see I have a Turbo040 installed. (The tall PDS card it attaches to is the TS Adapter from ARTMIX Japan.)
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I tapped AC from inside the stock PSU like this...
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Fun days.