26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
4:23 p.m.
The question then is why IBM went to the expense
of putting a fuse
connector inside the box. A wiretail fuse surely would be at least a
slight cost savings. I've never seen that fuse blown, personally.
To be honest, pigtailed fuses is major pain in butt to locate new
parts and replace. We stock 95% of typical fuses at our TV shop. My first 'PC Clone' was made with one of
those old 63.5 watt IBM
supplies. In a totally non-matched Leading Edge Model D case. To fit
the supply in such a case, the supply circuit board had to be completely
removed from the steel case and just bolted inside the Model D case.
UGH! At least have metal cage around that power supply!? By the way, many of them were made by Zenith for IBM
power supplies.
Zenith switching power supplies are awful and bizerre design.
What's wrong with them. I seem to remember tracing out schematics of the
PSUs in my PCs, and I didn't think they were that odd. They're better
than those infernal Boschert 2-stage ones....
-tony