Okay, turns out this was a bad power cable.  It does boot up but I got a sad mac.  The problem is that I also have a very dim screen which could be caused by the brightness knob being in line with the battery damage.  There's also some noise that comes out of the speaker.  Hard drive spins up at least.  I think I'll have to work on this a little more.



The other package that came in was... another HyperDrive.  This one I bought on Craigslist prior to the eBay one.  I actually messaged JDW about this because it looked earlier from the "less than stellar" pictures posted.  More info to come.