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Moving Caps-n-Coils - Electrical Complications?

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-04-24 10:22:08 Is there any electrical reason this Tank Farm and Coil couldn't be relocated an inch or two to the right? I'm thinking caps with heat shrunk wire leads and a wired extension for the coil with everything hot glued to a carrier board ought to be OK. What say? :?:

Posted by: James1095 on 2013-04-24 12:41:49 The thing you will want to watch for is parasitic inductance and resistance in the leads. That looks like a switchmode regulator which can have very high peak currents at high frequencies. Notice the parts are clustered tightly together connected by big fat traces. You can *probably* get away with moving things around a bit, but make sure you use heavy enough wires and keep them as short and direct as possible. Are you trying to make room for a longer hard drive? You might see if you can find tantalum or ceramic capacitors that are low profile enough to fit under it without moving them.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-04-24 15:16:45 THX, yep, I figured that tank farm and coil are the ElectroCrud for conditioning/converting the battery's power input, I'll either not be using a removable battery at all or using a different form factor battery mounted 90 degrees counterclockwise from that connector. That depends only upon electrical compatibility of the replacement battery and the successful lopping off of about 1/2" to 3/4" of the, all but empty, PCB peninsula where the FDD connector is right smack dab in the way. [:O] ]'> HDD was a good guess! :approve: Make that a CD-ROM drive poking out the left side and you'd be right on the money! [}🙂] ]'>

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-04-26 14:48:11 Where is Waldo? The 1400 boots and runs TechToolPro from the CD just fine, but some parts are conspicuously out of place. }🙂 Tank Farm and Coil relocation hack testing comes next! }🙂

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