TT030 Safe First Power-Up After Long-Term Storage

[MEX68KECB]

Hi all,

I have a boxed Atari TT030 that has been stored for a while, and I’d like to do a careful first inspection and brief power-up test.

I’m not looking to recap, modify, restore, or run it for hours right now. I just want to avoid doing anything stupid before applying power.

For a TT030 specifically, what would you check first?

My current list is:

- Inspect for battery/capacitor leakage
- Visual check of PSU and motherboard
- Check video output using a TenoxVGA ECL-to-VGA adapter
- Brief boot test
- Keyboard/mouse test
- Floppy test with a known-good disk
- If this unit has an internal hard drive, is there any TT-specific advice on first power-up? Better to leave it connected for the initial test, or disconnect it only if inspection suggests a problem?

Are there any TT-specific "do not power it until you check X" items I should know about?

Thanks,

Patrick

[Steve]

If you're worried about it, the thing to do would be testing the PSU outside of the machine, connected to a load. Let it run for a bit and test it's output voltages with a multimeter. The PSU is the only thing that could potentially do harm after long term storage. (Besides battery leakage) Then you can go on to do secondary functionality tests as you outlined.