On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:29:41 AM Dave did opine: > On 4/10/2012 11:11 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > there is no source > > > > > > of power on that side of the interface in the G540 > > This is the key part of his message... Sure, that could be remedied, > but the G540 would become twice the size and need another outside power > source, not really > practical with the existing design. I was thinking that some simple > pull up resistors on the G540 side would do the trick, and that > Geckodrive might have missed that, but with no pull up power source.. > that isn't practical. > > If the LPT port can be put into EPP mode, there seems to be no issue. > > Dave > Huh? Maybe my memory is going south, but in a past life I once used the 5 volts supplied by the parport to fix that in one of the shacks old printers. No power was obtained from the printer to do that. ISTR there is a pin on the db25 that has 5 volts on it, limited to half an amp or so with a 10 ohm R intended to be used as a fuse in the event of a load short.
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