My dictionary says that this is an adjective and ‘Done or to be done by an amateur at home’.
Well, I have been asked by a few hardy souls how to remove bits from errant TCs that can then be sent packing - literally, via whatever postal system exists out there, BUT WITHOUT RISKING the internal hard-drive and all the precious data.
Look at the very bottom of this page and you shall find that which you seek!
I have also been asked more than once, where to get the various components to fix the PSUs...
Try this list...
TC - Passive Components needed.
1500uF 6.3V 105C 8mm dia 20mm
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/aluminium/0571098/
680uF 6.3V 105C 8mm dia x 12mm
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/0571278/
470uF 16V 105C 8mm dia 11.5mm
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/aluminium/7037490/
33 Ohm ½ watt Carbon film (for fan type -2113)
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/through-hole-fixed/7078108/
43 Ohm ½ watt Carbon film (for fan type -3650)
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/through-hole-fixed/7078114/
I hope it helps?
Eutechnics
My dictionary lists ‘Eutechnics’ as being a well arranged system of work. That’ll do for me!
AppleAllen
When Apple problems are too much and all else has failed... call Allen from here. The founding pilot of the Z-Team and all-round good-guy.
La Pastenague
When my Time Capsule died, it was a real shock that something 'Apple' should do this, after all "Apple's just work".
Having trawled the web for immediate help (probably as you have done) and been advised by Apple that it was” out of warranty", I decided to do something about it on my own.
I was guided, as so many have been and so many more will be, by the 'La Pastenague' website, into rolling up my sleeves and doing it myself.
25 years of engineering inactivity fell away and my skills from years ago became re-established again.
My ability as a design engineer and circuit builder was not really being tested here, as Time Capsule design is mostly excellent. (But with added ‘flaws’ for extra excitement!)
However, seeing what the problem was and putting myself back a number of years, I could imagine how the 'problem' occurred; it is not too hard to 'fix the omissions'.
The internal fan has no air input, is pointing the wrong way and does not turn on. Some experimentation resulted and I passed my thoughts, with pictures to Ray Haverfield in Australia.
The man is so wonderfully practical and unflustered that his reply and response to my first faltering steps still reads well months later. Ray advised putting an external power supply in place and even recommended the type.
He was then and is now very generous.
Through him I have contacted Dale in the USA, Murdoch in the UK and Meherally in the UAE, all of whom I would regard as good friends, albeit via the Internet. We may meet one day. (See the Z-Team reference).
However, Ray may well have been lucky and just “in the right place at the right time”, but he gets my grateful thanks that I am very happy to make public. I know I am not alone in this thanks. Ray, you are one of a kind! :-)
His site contains some of my work. In the spirit of friendship and cooperation I link to his site from here:
Kindred Spirits
I suspect you may have heard of this website;
The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register
A tale of 2 TCs.
On the left is a DELTA supply unit with a 'green' 1TB drive in a Eutechnics ’modified’ case with the fan turned round.
On the right is a unit with a Flextronic PSU unit with a 500GB drive.
The two units were allowed to warm up for 2 hours, both are merely ticking over and no disc access is being made.
The PSU areas of each show the greatest heat generation, with a 10 to 11 degree C difference.
(The table top is at 20 degrees C.)
This picture really says it all I suppose.
Tests will continue showing internal temperatures.
I hope you find these interesting?
Kind regards,
Iceman Chris
;-)
As Promised, Internal Temperatures.
July 2011.
The ‘Do-it-yourself’ TC dismantling COLOURING BOOK...
How to keep the weight (and cost) down by sending only the bits that are needed...
If you can do the following:
- Armed with a heat gun or hair-dryer warm the rubber base-mat until it is uncomfortable to touch.
- Peel it back starting from a corner and all the glue should remain stuck to the grey rubber. Use more heat as necessary.
- With a small cross-head screwdriver, undo the 10x small screws and lift the base plate.
- Unplug the small fan plug. It will pull out with little effort. Set the base-plate and fan to one side.
- Unplug the PSU from the hard disk drive (larger connector just slides off) and baseboard (smaller connector has a 'squeeze-clip' on its side). The supply input just lifts out.
Post to me in a padded envelope, with a generous loose-handful of gold doubloons, or other piffling small currency… :-)
Send this lot:
- Grey rubber cover.
- Aluminium base plate with fan attached. *
- PSU complete.
- 10x small screws inside a small bag or container.
- The necessary money (cheque, or confirmation of bank transfer).
- A return address for its ultimate arrival back into your care.
I will do the rest.
This way you save money and hang onto your valuable data on the hard drive.
Reassembly is merely the reverse of the points 5, 4 and 3.
I will include a re-assembly list.
* NOTE, the English spelling of this metal, not American... ;-)