Mark Twain wrote:
Wow, so much involved,.. seems most of my
'simple' problems or questions get so complicated.
but as you said, I'm trying to think ahead.

As I said, I have some other things I need to
take care of first which will takes months which
is why I wanted to know just how much time do I have
before I can't find a PSU for the 780 but I
assume the Sparkle will be around for awhile?

So what am I to do for the 780 PSU? I'm not going
to invest in crimpers etc. that's going a bit too
far.

In fact, I only brought up the power supplies
because that's what I had to do to the 8200 to keep
it going among other things with your good help.

If there's no problem getting a power supply say a
year from now I won't worry about it.

Thanks
Robert

Well, a year from now, the spare won't win a beauty
contest, just like now. So nothing will have changed.

Electrically, there should be a solution available.

I'm pretty certain the current supply and the 5V @ 25A
rating, really isn't needed, But I verify that sort of
thing here with my clamp-on DC ammeter. The load inside
the machine is likely at half that level.

Paul