[ydl-gen] VVDQ : power supply for old Airport Base Station

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Beartooth:

If you are going to work with any electrical aspects of computer 
hardware beyond the level of plugging/unplugging devices from a power 
socket and you really intend to not damage what you have, in my view you 
really have only one recourse.  Enroll for a beginners level electronics 
course and work your way up from there.  Happily there exists something 
called the Cleveland Institute of Electronics (http://www.cie-wc.edu/) 
which has specialized in home based training starting from courses which 
are of interest to hobbyists and some classes could be of interest to 
some professionals.  Although I've followed their progress as an 
institution; I've never enrolled with them.  However, they could be of 
interest to you.

The experience gained from using the proper tools and exercises is 
priceless.  A serious effort in this direction could open another career 
path.  However, if that is not your interest at the very least you'll 
have a better understanding of what to do and avoid doing, which in 
itself could save you a great deal of money.

Good Luck... Derick.

Beartooth wrote:
> We still have our August 2002 G3 iBook, and an Airport Base
> Station that used to work with it. 
>
> The Base  Station itself is Dual Ethernet model, according
> to the pix at
> http://search.info.apple.com/?search=Go&lr=lang_en&kword=&type=&newstype=&q=airport%20base%20station
>
> I have the base station in hand, but not the transformer
> that went with it
> -- despite my long habit of keeping such things together,
> alas!
>  
> I'm pretty sure it's still in this house -- somewhere; but
> finding it is
> going to be anything but trivial. So I have two Very Very
> Dumb Questions.
>  
> First, how will I recognize it when I have my hand on it?
> Does it say
> Apple on it, for instance? Or anything distinctive?
>  
> Second, if I don't find it, I have lots of old transformers
> around from
> equipment that has died, though they have not. If one of
> them has a plug
> that fits, does that mean all I need is that its output be
> 12 volts? 
>
> http://support.apple.com/specs/airport/AirPort_Base_Station_Dual_Ethernet.html
> says one of its interfaces is a Power jack (12 V DC) which
> seems to mean
> that any 12-volt input that fits wouold work; but what I
> know of hardware
> would go in a gnat's eye, and I don't want to damage
> anything.
>
>