I looked around the board more and found "POR" etched on the board next to where the orange wire is soldered in and "P5" next to where the blue wire is soldered in.

"P12" is etched at where the yellow (+12V) wire is soldered in. "GND" is at where the black wires are soldered in. "N12" is at where the white (-12V) wire is soldered in.

How should POR be wired?

alan

On 12/31/23 3:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Not really. As I said, Sun and Axil, while using the same 12-pin power connector, put the pins in different positions and color code the wires differently. For the 220, Axil also sourced the PSU from a different vendor and it is a completely different size (almost the same size as a flexatx psu). Also, only 10 of the 12 pins are used.

The Sony PSU used in pizza box sun4c system changed from black (GND)/red(+5V)/yellow(+12V)/blue(-12V)/orange(+5V POR) to black/red/blue/brown/gray. The sun4c lunchboxes used the same connector except they started call the orange/gray pin SENS (is that the same as POR in Sun's usage?). The sun4c lunchbox scheme continued through the sun4m lunchboxes. The sun4m pizzaboxes went to an 18-pin power connector with the same wire color scheme, except gray became "PwrOff"/"Poff".

The PSU in my Axil 320 (a SS10/SS20 clone) uses the 18-pin connector and a color scheme similar to the SS10/20 one but I haven't checked all of the pins to see if they are completely the same.


On 12/31/23 2:44 PM, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
Also a link to the lx service manual

http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_lx/sparcLX.pdf

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On Dec 31, 2023, at 14:37, Wayne S <wayne.su...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 Does this help?

https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/power_supply/sun-sparcengine-motherboard-power-supply/


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On Dec 31, 2023, at 13:48, Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

Does anyone here have a running Axil 220 or 245 (Sun SPARCstation LX clone)? My 220 has a dead PSU and I am trying to get it working with a modern PC PSU. But I don’t know the pinout for the power connector.

While the power connector is the same as used by Sun, the pinout and, aside from +5V and GND, the wire color scheme are different. I have identified 3 of the 6 wire colors and 7 of the 10 pins. The wire color scheme seemed to be a match for early sun4c but I just found something that suggests a couple wire colors are used differently.

I have found that black is ground, red is +5V, and yellow is +12V. White, orange, and blue are TBD. A marking on the PSU board suggests white is -12V. Blue and orange seem to only used by a daughter board centered on a LM339 chip. But, as a software guy, I can’t tell what it does.

Anyone here have any insight here that might help me?

alan

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