Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gecko power requirements

From: <ccs@...>

>
> > Since the parallel port on this specific motherboard actually comes off
> > a header and travels via ribbon cable to the connector the external

cable

> > goes to,
> > would it be feasible for me to strip out the 25th pin's wire and splice

it

> > to
> > a +5V source from the computer's power supply?
>
> Sure, until someone plugs in a printer...

Not a problem since I built the computer strictly
for EMC and have no plans for a printer on it.

If I do, I can always install another port.

> You should probably fuse it, with a small (100 ma?) fuse, too. Some
> computer power supplies (Dell) have zero tolerance for short
> circuits... don't ask me how I know (and it had non-standard wiring,
> so I had to make a new harness for the replacement). Get your
> power off a spare disk power cable, not the motherboard!

This is what I was thinking, to use a spare power wire and
splice it to an unused pin on the DB25.

Weyland