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cvrle59 wrote:

nige2000 wrote:difficult to see but have you wired the 4pin cpu plug direct from battery?
is the linear supply not a runner?

Yes I did...I should've done better job arranging those cables before I took the picture, to make it less confusing. The cable with 4pin molex, coming from pico is vacant, but the other one coming from the connector facing outside of the box is connected and supplied by one of two batteries.
The other thing, that is hard to see from photos (resolution had to be slashed down to be able to upload), is that those Tender Chargers come with 7.5A inline fuses. So, I did rearranged wiring little bit with adequate terminals, and I changed those fuses with 2A. There are 4 in total, if you pay attention, they are on top of the batteries. Each charging line has one, and each load feed line has one too.
The small charger on right side is used to charge Anker battery which feeds PP-USB card.
I played some DSD tunes by JPlay6 last night, amazing!

tony wrote:Just an update on my belated attempt to go picoless on the intel dh77eb board (original Zuma spec from Chris Connaker on CA)
Thanks to Nigel who did 95%+ of the soldering/wiring on a visit that extended well beyond the timings we had expected (Got to hear the dac Nigel has put together it is a work in progress but it seems Nigel's skills are not restricted to power supplies on PC's, I think that development will have it's own much visited thread in time). For anybody new trying this work please make sure all devices(usb keys,disks etc) are disconnected until one is confident the build is connected correctly. Very easy to advise but hard in progress when one is trying to get the initial temporary build powered up.

This intel board has an unusual characteristic. When run picoless the power button on the Zuma needs to be held in prior to tripping in the power.

After getting it to the 'finished state' the only working operating system I Had left was on a sandisk extreme usb key. For some unexplained reason mouse operation was not functioning on this.

Enter Pearse who had already spent a morning getting the initial build to power up dropped over for another afternoon of investigative work. Thanks to Pearse who had a working version of 2012R2 on ssd and the necessary power cables I got a full working system back in operation. This allowed my Zuma to work as before and fully operational. I think Pearse nabbed some photo's today of the 'temp' build maybe he might post them on this thread?. At some point I will stick this in a case.

Many thanks again to the two lads I would never have got to this point without their help and knowledge.

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