Apple IIGS - Full Re-Cap Job Using Console5 Power Supply and Logic Board Kits

[@wdd6864]

Looks great and agree with expandability. I would be worried about the battery soldered to the board.

[@bbishoppcm]

Totally not worried about the battery - this one's getting old, but was a new install only a few years ago. My plan is to install a battery holder at some point.

[@dylsmith2336]

Hi Brandon! I forget, does your house have a functional wood fireplace? If you use it, i would love to see a video of you making a fire and enjoying the fire eventually. Watching it as the wood burns down. There's nothing more cozy then that as the winter approaches!

[@bbishoppcm]

We do have a working wood-burning fireplace but barely use it; it tends to suck the heat out of the house and provides very little warmth in return. I'm planning on installing a wood pellet insert at some point.

[@dylsmith2336]

@@bbishoppcm That's what I've heard about most fireplaces, they aren't very efficient. My family's 50s era house never had one but if I owned the house I'd put in a wood stove. Sounds good! Though the only issue with a pellet stove is to some extent reliability, but mostly that they require electricity and that you can only use pellets as fuel. A wood stove insert is much simpler as there aren't any moving parts (apart from an electric blower on some), and they are basically the same as a freestanding unit. They don't require electricity so as long as you have firewood you will have heat! Though some people like pellet stoves for their convenience. My friend's family has a late 70s era "The Earth Stove" 100 series freestanding wood stove that still works great. The steel is nice and thick and it has a thermostatic damper which uses a bimetallic spring to control the air intake damper based on temperature, which is pretty cool. Some new stoves have the same design, such as those made by Blaze King. For a modern stove, manufacturers have to conform to EPA emissions requirements, meaning that a new stove will commonly have one of two ways to achieve more efficiency. Either using a baffle system for secondary burn, or a catalytic converter unit inside the firebox to reburn the gasses and smoke. However, a catalytic stove requires more maintenance and is more costly than a non catalytic unit. Older stoves still work great but modern ones use less wood because of the secondary burn and air tight design. A lot of people insee love to turn their stoves so low down to where you can't even see flames. This is great to burn less wood, but it's important to still let enough air in once in awhile to get it nice and hot to burn off any creosote and keep it running safe and efficiently.

[@ScottSavageKC7WDG]

51:40 the capacity looks to go up because most capacitor testers use the time it takes to charge to calculate the capacitance. So if the cap looks like a resistor it will read a higher value.

[@bbishoppcm]

Ah, interesting!

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Never had a pen go though the wash but did have a red coloured lipbulm melt in the dryer. Speakng of the storms did you see the pics LGR posted? Glad he's okay hopefully his collection is tpo