Direct’s orignal powersupply was probably something thrown together in haste. No PCB, it had regulators and capactitors soldered together and initially when I was rebuilding the machine, I had to rebuild that as well. It always felt a bit hairy and when I noticed a lose solder joint recently I figured it was time to either replace it all or start thinking about creating a PCB.
The original had 3x 5V and 1x 12V out. (still haven’t taken the time to figure out where the 12v is for but that will come later)
Thankfully I had a Mean Well switching PS around and Paul mentioned to me that it would easilly do so I set out to replace the old PSU with this one. Cleaned up the connectors as well, where originally the lines were directly soldered to the mainboard.
The new PSU is autoswitching, so the voltage selector is now disonnected.
