I’ve been rehabilitating a SparcStation Voyager when I get time (of which I 
seem to have some now). The display did work off and on but doesn’t show 
anything now.  As per the troubleshooting docs, I check the DC/DC board 
voltages but the service manual (from oracle!) has wire colors that bear no 
resemblance to my board.  I found a pin that starts out at 12v but decays 
fairly quickly.

Does anyone know if the pin3=12v, 4=5v, 5=5v, 6,7,8=gnd and 9=3.3 from the 
manual is correct?

This one voltage that drops to zero after initially showing 12v - is that a 
reasonable symptom for a bad power supply?  Is that kind of thing fixable?  I 
don’t expect I’ll be able to find a replacement board.  I don’t see any blown 
capacitors or expressed smoke.

I’m not sure how the pin counting is supposed to go for this 10 pin molex power 
connector.  The female side on the main board looks from the top like:

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Where the little thing at the bottom is the locking tab.  The power board 
itself has a line of wires coming out, and they are numbered 1-11 with #10 not 
connected.  But again, the color of those wires don’t seem to bear any 
resemblance to the manual.

On the off chance: anybody have a spare DC/DC converter for a Sparcstation 
Voyager that they want to unload cheap?  Part number is, I think 300-1234.

Cheers,
—sma

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