Hmm... I scrapped and ELC myself.  Pulled the board and the power 
supply, never had a problem with it not working however :(

Nick

At 01:18 AM 9/9/99 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
>I've acquired an ELC with fried video electronics.  I'd like to run it
>headless, but want to toss the big chassis with the video goop in it.
>
>After spending an hour or two working on it, I got the thing apart
>enough to take the power supply out.  I also got the small board at the
>back bottom, the one that breaks out the CPU card-edge to the various
>connectors, free.  I then plugged in the power supply and a serial line
>and turned it on.
>
>It worked.  But after maybe a total of ten to fifteen minutes of
>power-on time, the power supply seems to have fried itself, presumably
>because it's missing the load presented by the video electronics.  It's
>not the CPU board that's fried, verified by swapping it into a working
>ELC.  Applying a voltmeter to the solder points where the power
>connector wires are attached indicates that the +5 lines are being fed
>only about +0.8 volts - no wonder the CPU doesn't run.
>
>Therefore, I'm inquiring of the collective wisdom here if anyone knows
>either (a) how much power the CPU sucks and at what voltages, so I can
>drive it from a more general-purpose supply, or (b) what load resistors
>I'd need to add to keep the power supply from frying itself for lack of
>the video load.
>
>As a partial answer to (a), the markings on the power supply seem to
>imply that the CPU board uses +5, -5, +12, and -12.  Measuring the
>voltages as I mentioned above, the -5 supply is fine, the +12 and -12
>points are being driven by about +20 and -20 volts, and as I said above
>the +5 supply seems to be putting out less than 1V.  There are markings
>indicating that the video electronics want (from fuzzy memory) +25,
>+68, and +117 volts.  If I do load resistors, I'll definitely have to
>be careful. :-)
>
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