New DEC museum entry :D (not the breaker sub-thread)

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Graham Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:26 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: New DEC museum entry :D (not the breaker sub-thread) -snip Anyone seen something like this 'mains plug in a sealed tin box' arrangement before? The thing's got to be 4 or 5 inches by 2.5 inches so whatever goes on in there is anyone's guess. If I was at work I may be tempted to unhook the earth wire that's bolted to the chassis but it's there for a reason....though normally I'd expect that to be there to ensure the psu casing was never live. -/snip- Apple used devices like this in their 21" monitors, I forget the model #'s , when I was working for a local scrapper in the seattle area, we got 30 of these in as "dead" 28 of them were resurrected by replacing the filter units with similarly rated units from a local parts place. We were given the monitors as scrap, the replacement parts were $14.95 each and we sold the monitors after making sure that was the only repairs that they needed for $395.00 to 595.00 (the monitors were over a grand new at the time)