Happy 1050 upgrade question... wiring oops!

[dafivehole]

So I'm doing the Atarimax Happy upgrade on my 1050 and everything's going great until I go to reconnect the wiring... of course I pulled them off without paying attention and the pictures on the PDF file don't look anything like my connectors (see pictures). I sent Atarimax an email but I was wondering if anyone here has the same connectors and can help me reconnect these correctly without damaging anything?

 

Thank you in advance,

Roger

 

[BillC]

Your drive has the World Storage mechanism rather than the Tandon.

 

This posting has a picture: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/158149-cant-find-connector-polarity-inside-1050-drive/?do=findComment&comment=1942317

[dafivehole]

Yes, I saw that on the drive... is that a bad thing? The drive has run like a champ for some time...

 

Thanks,

Roger

[BillC]

As far as I know there's not much difference in reliability between the Tandon and World Storage drives, just different manufacturing locations for each type. I added a link to a posting with a picture in my previous post.

[dafivehole]

The wire colors in that picture are the same as mine... can I just match up the wire colors in that order and plug them back in?!?

 

Thanks,

Roger

 

UPDATE: I went ahead and copied that wire pattern and it worked perfectly! I now have a Happy 1050 !!!

 

Thank you Bill !!!

Edited August 8, 2015 by dafivehole

[+DrVenkman]

Glad you got things working. One of the first things I decided, when I saw the maze of spaghetti inside the 1050 with the 7 or 8 different cable harnesses in three locations around the board, was take multiple pics of things BEFORE I start screwing around with them, lol!