3 Jun
2008
3 Jun
'08
6:01 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I was
foolish enough
to get it out a couple of mnths later and attempt to use it to power
my homebrew board. Alas something had failed in the PSU (I forget
what,
it might just have been a dry joint...) the +5V
output was at about
9V.
I can understand worrying about something that's not been used for
a few years, but if you check everything that's not been used for
just a few months, when do you have time to actually _do_ anything?
The only thing I remember going phut round here is a Rainbow
a few years ago - and that failed while trying to format a disk
(so it had been running happily for a morning or so while
I was playing with it).
(Actually I had a mains lead fail just a few weeks ago,
but that wasn't hooked up to anything classic :-)).
When I get around to trying out the 380Z I'll most certainly
not plug it in and hope (have you seen the size of the cap in
that beast?) but I'm not going to worry too much about the
Ultra 5 that sits on my desk and is powered up only every
few months ...
Antonio
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