[Info-vax] Need special extention cable for power supply output

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In article <l4ron2$174$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2013-10-30 18:49:43 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt said:
>
>> My usual solution is to open the power supply and solder another one in.
>
>Cracking open and modifying an AlphaServer power supply is not 
>something I'd generally recommend in this context.
>
>That approach is potentially slightly more hazardous than knowing which 
>end of the soldering iron to grab, after all.  It also presumes there's 
>room and power in the AlphaServer power supply for another connection, 
>and I don't know that's available in that old AlphaServer.   There are 
>days I don't trust me with a hot soldering iron, either.
>
>The most flexible and transportable is an external BA-series SCSI 
>storage enclosure or analogous box, and those are cheap and easily 
>available, and usually have the power and cooling for the expected 
>number of disk bricks.  Failing that, maybe a Y cable.

But then one has to have the disk in the StorageWork brick format to put
into that enclosure.

Those Y power connectors are a dime a dozen at most any personal computer
store.

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