Recommendations for Commodore CDTV

[Xanxi]

Nice Linuxjedi.
Curious to see the differences coming from the 68010 for BB games. Aren’t the improvements coming from the fast ram rather than cpu. About the fan have you found one with the right header or did you soldered wires?

 

[LinuxJedi]

Nice Linuxjedi.
Curious to see the differences coming from the 68010 for BB games. Aren’t the improvements coming from the fast ram rather than cpu. About the fan have you found one with the right header or did you soldered wires?

I'll try and find time this weekend to record the difference.

I soldered the wires onto a Noctua fan.

 

[PRS]

On the other “bay”, there is an original CDTV mouse for not too much money:

Commodore Amiga CDTV cdtv C.D.T.V black mouse great condition | eBay

Commodore Amiga CDTV cdtv C.D.T.V black mouse great condition | Computers/Tablets & Networking, Vintage Computing, Other Vintage Computing | eBay!

www.ebay.nl

 

[bordy12]

Any reccomendations to expose a cf card (from a TF536) on the front or rear panel of the CDTV? just to avoid removing lid everytime you need to update something on the cf... thank you

 

[simon_m74]

I designed a realtime clock battery backup, so that it keeps the time when the mains power is disconnected.
PM if interested

 

[Xanxi]

Nice! How does it work?

 

[simon_m74]

Nice! How does it work?

The cable from the PSU that powers the clock (and other systems) goes to this board, which then feeds that back to the motherboard.
When power is disconnected, the battery keeps power to the clock chip.

 

[Xanxi]

Very nice. Is it a rechargable battery?
You should make a for sale thread so we can buy this.

 

[simon_m74]

its a CR 2032..

I`ll make up a thread tonight.

 

[Fastdruid]

PS: here are pictures of the fan header, i don't know how this one might be called. I may have seen this before for very small fan such as the one from the Dreamcast but i am not sure.

It took me a *LONG* time to work out what these connectors are. I've not seen it anywhere else so although this is an old thread and I'm certain you've sorted this by now I'm putting this here so others can find it!

They are Molex 51004-0300 which use Molex 50011-8000 crimp terminals. The socket on the board is a Molex 53014-0310

They are Obsolete/NLA however you can still get them from aliexpress, the terminals however are still available new (from both Mouser and digikey) so you can merely pop the original terminals out from the connector, stick new ones onto your new fan and re-insert them.

Some links for them.

Crimp Terminals: https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products/detail/molex/0500118000/1790208 & https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Molex/50011-8000

These are for info.
Socket (NLA): https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Molex/53014-0310
Plug (NLA): https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Molex/51004-0300

 

[Xanxi]

Hi @Fastdruid.

Thanks for this useful info!!
I have still not changed the fan and the CDTV is waiting for me to have more time to take care of it as i am currently doing something else.
In the meantime, i have learnt to solder enough to be confident that i can just cut the wires and solder them back together, so i will replace with a noctua fan.
I will look into the plug you mentionned as it would be even better to replace the plug on the noctua fan and keep the old one as is.

 

[Fastdruid]

Downside is if you want the new plugs you need to buy them in bulk... If you want 30 of them... https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007481945161.html