Dysan PAT 2 floppy calibration device, power supply specs needed

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Dysan PAT 2 floppy calibration device, power supply specs needed

Not sure exactly where to post this. I have a Dysan PAT 2+ Perfromance and Alignment tester. Its two modules, one main unit with keypad/display  and a second Apple Adpater in an identical shell. The connector together in some way. While I did locate the user manual online it was of little help in determing the power supply needed. Hope someone here has one and can help out with sepcs. I will attach the maual. It is an interesting device which I assumed was only for Apple II 5.25" floppy drives, but the version I have can also do 1.44mb and 720k. It can also do Sony OA-D30,OA-D32V & OA-D32W. But I am not certain if those drives also transpate to Mac Drives, the M0001 used a 34v if I recall (memeory made be shaddy here). But like I said, it has no power supply adapter or even proper ribbon cables to make it all work. And there is very little info found online. Primarily I want to at least test the power before posting for sale since the effort to get the test floppies, cables, etc may be too much of a project for myself to take up.

 

 

 

 

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Power looks like a PC style

Power looks like a PC style floppy power for 5.25" drives.  Usually +5V and +12V and two grounds.  Easy to get from an old PC power supply or to find the pinout and wire up from other supplies.

 

The hard part is going to be finding the special floppies...

 

 

 

 

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For the Apple module, yes.

For the Apple module, yes. But the main unit needs a regular wall-wart style power adapter. Just not sure of specs and dont want to fry it.

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Yeah, no clue on that one. 

Yeah, no clue on that one.  If you can open it up you can probably track down the pins in the conector enough to figure out which one(s) are power and which one is ground, but the voltage could probably be anything.  Also for that matter you would have to look pretty closely to figure out if it requires AC or DC input.  Presence of a transformers and full wave bridge recrifiers could possibly indicate AC...  but I'm mostly a software guy so don't take anything I say as gospel especially on something fairly obscure like this.

 

 

 

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