On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Kevin Handy wrote:
  I've been following this thread, but I'm
betting that the original
 author plugged an AC adapter where it wanted DC, or vice versa.
 That will often cause a "blue-smoke" level event. 
My guess is wrong polarity.
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