I’m going to make some coffee, and crack open the 1541 that I’d rediscovered at the beginning of the year, so I can make another set of measurements of the head resistance.
Words alone cannot express how exciting the prospect of getting the otherwise blown-out read heads to work again is. 🔥🧨🎆🎇
Looks like the only pair from the read/write head that has continuity is yellow-black. Which, if I understand the forum64 thread correctly, is the erase coil. :(
[ On that note, I must say that the schematics are deeply unhelpful as the scrambled order that they’re in there, don’t actually match the jumper’s pinout. ]
The deeply shi**y part about this entire situation for me, is that I think I actually had continuity before I powered the 1541 on.
So, in my quest to actually be able to recover some family documents and recipes from the ‘80s, I’m left to scouring eBay for working 44-year-old drives.
Which, among other things I’m doing, isn’t exactly the most high priority task, but certainly one that occupies space in my mind… since waiting longer won’t make things easier.
Especially since I’m still debating making a cross-country trip to pick up a 5 1/2” drive from our storage unit there, just so I can get this done without a 1541.
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