[rescue] Sun T5240 power supply failure?

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Arno

Not really talking about different things.

The 3000 has the ability to have two PPS (Peripheral Power Supplies). The base
system comes with just one which also has the mains inlet connector and
switch, p/n is 300-1307 or 300-1400. The 300-1301 was an optional second
backup PPS which you correctly say was used in the other EXX00 systems. If you
open up the 300-1301 and the 300-1307 you will find the same board and can
convert between the two, I have done this several times.

On the 3500 system the second PPS is a different module and is located inside
where the disk slots are.

Glad the Pilots have found a use after so many years in the draw!

On the FC/25, no idea, I too thought it was developed/purchased by Sun and was
a closed system and for-runner to the 1Gb FC product which was generally
available. That is not to say that IBM may have been involved in the
development or supply.

Peter
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On 2 Mar 2016, at 06:38, Arno Kletzander <Arno_1983 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I'm afraid we're talking of different things here. The part I understand as
PPS
> (actually "Auxilliary PPS" or "PPS 1" as shown on page 6-3ff here
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19095-01/ent3k.srvr/802-6051-11/802-6051-11.pdf
> ) is the facultative power supply module that goes in the second slot from
left
> in the rear, and doesn't have anything I'd recognize as a switch assembly.
> The Sun P/N (page F-2) is 300-1301.
> It is in fact identical between the 3x00/4x00 series, the 4000 series
manual
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19095-01/ent4k.srvr/802-3845-11/802-3845-11.pdf
> lists the same part number in the E4000 parts breakdown on page F-3.
> The machine
> shown here https://doogielabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/DSCF0044.jpg
> does have a filler fitted in that position instead (as mine currently has),
> discernible by having just grey tab handles instead of the blue kick-out
levers.
>
> [BTW, your parcel appeared here yesterday and everything looks fine so far.
> The panel made it here unharmed (everything was packed very nicely, I must
> add) and has the correct designation, the Palm Pilots both work like a charm
> after fitting new batteries. The 1000 has a couple of dead lines in the
> display and in the Professional, which I'm probably going to use regularly
due
> to its backlit display and the more versatile firmware, had developed some
> nasty corrosion on the docking connector, which came right off - together
with
> the gold finish, unfortunately - with a fiberglass eraser followed by some
IPA.
> I'm unable to test the SSA host adapters but I'm sure there will be working
> ones among them. No obvious damages on any of them. There is one optical
module
> on one of them that differs from the others and bears an IBM label, is
there
> a story to that - I thought that FC/25 was Sun specific?
> Anyway, thanks a bunch again!]
>
> Arno
>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 07:51:00 +0000
>> From: Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
>> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun T5240 power supply failure?
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>> Hi Arno
>>
>> The PPS (Peripheral Power Supply) on the E3X00 was always a a weak point,
had
>> several which just packed up. The E3X00 was always hard to find a
replacement
>> for, but I found that the E4X00 was exactly the same PSU, you just need to
>> transfer the front plate and switch assembly over from the dead one. The
E4X00
>> were always plentiful, maybe not so nowadays.
>>
>> Peter
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