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Title: IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: JayTea on February 09, 2003, 10:33:10 pm
I just installed some p360's from Happs, and now I do not have a shift feature.  I used the 5v from an extra cpu fan lead and plugged it directly into the p360's  Everything works like a charm, except, no shift.   It was working before the p360 installation, so I think it may have something to do with that.

 I also noticed that the IPAC was a little warm, is this normal?  I know it gets some juice from the computer, but I don't recall it running "hot" before (maybe I didn't notice?)  Thanks in advance!

Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: Thenasty on February 09, 2003, 10:56:33 pm
better watch and measure that voltage. Sometime FAN are plug in a +12v.  If that juice is +12v and its plug in the 360, the juice will travel to the IPAC. You should have taken the +5v from the ipac like we told you. I hope this is not what happened to you.
Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: JayTea on February 09, 2003, 11:14:26 pm


hooked it up to the IPAC, and I got my shift back.  
Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: eightbit on February 10, 2003, 07:56:53 am
Quote from: Thenasty on February 09, 2003, 10:56:33 pm
better watch and measure that voltage. Sometime FAN are plug in a +12v.  If that juice is +12v and its plug in the 360, the juice will travel to the IPAC. You should have taken the +5v from the ipac like we told you. I hope this is not what happened to you.
I've never seen a fan that wasn't 12v, he got lucky it didn't fry something.
Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: ErikRuud on February 10, 2003, 11:20:22 am
The very first fan on this page (http://www.sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=18&category=175) is 5 volt.
Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: eightbit on February 10, 2003, 01:22:19 pm
Quote from: ErikRuud on February 10, 2003, 11:20:22 am
The very first fan on this page (http://www.sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=18&category=175) is 5 volt.
Hey smarty pants the first 2 fans on that page are 110v and I don't see any 5v fans.

I was also refering to PC case or CPU fans. I have never seen a 5v fan used in a PC case. I'm not saying that there isn't or that they aren't common I'm just saying in the thousands of PC's and server machines that I've worked on I've never seen a 5v fan. That is what I meant by he was lucky not to have blown anything when he plugged the 5v stick into it. My guess would have been that it wouldn't hurt the motherboard but that it would have blown the joystick, which apparently it didn't do.
Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: ErikRuud on February 10, 2003, 02:42:14 pm
Sorry, I did not realize that the link would take you to the second page of that category.  Click on the "More Blowers" button.  The first fan on THAT page is 5 volt.  Apparently from a 3dfx card.

My poit was that there are fans that could be in a PC that run off of 5 volts.
Title: Re:IPAC - MY SHIFT IS GONE!?!?
Post by: Thenasty on February 10, 2003, 03:14:18 pm
Quote from: thefootballguy on February 09, 2003, 11:14:26 pm


hooked it up to the IPAC, and I got my shift back.  


You finally listen to some advice.