Dr Bott SGI-Saver voltage?

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I've lost the power adapter for a Dr Bott SGI-Saver and am looking for a replacement. There are no markings for the type of voltage needed.
 
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Here's the insides of the SGI-Saver...
 

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Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.
 
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so I'm completely unfamiliar with this - looking at a few google searches, it looks like it's just a DVI adapter? What's the use case for it?
Don't want to derail the conversation, just feel like it's rare I hear of something SGI related I've never heard of before :)
 
Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
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Yes, using as a "workaround for a 1600SW monitor ...unfortunately I'm unable to find the display adapter card for the 540 Visual Workstation.
 
Looks like the input jack goes through a ferrite bead, a Panasonic FK series capacitor, then a MIC39100 linear regulator (3.3V).

Since the lowest voltage rating on the capacitor series is 6.3V and the regulator is dropping things to 3.3V, my best guess is you want something like a 5Vdc center positive input.

Again, best guess, for which I accept little to no responsibility. May set your cat on fire, etc. :p
Thanks, I'll give that a try, think I have a few lying around (adapters , not cats!)
 
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