8 May
2001
8 May
'01
3:44 p.m.
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I was actually very impressed. Just yank the restraining clip in the front
and the power supply comes right out. Swapping supplies took seconds.
In the vein of resurrection, I just brought an SE/30 back to SCSI
availability again with the assistance of www.junkyardjeff.com. He has
a pretty full selection of Mac parts - Atari, Amiga, Commodore, Next,
etc coming up also - reasonable prices and prompt delivery. Tough
combination to beat!
I was very happy with his service!
- don
spare items). I will say that I wish every power
supply were as easy
to replace as the IIgses -- it literally just snaps in and out.
I've never seen the point of this kind of construction. If I'm going to
be fixing something I am going to need at least a multimeter, soldering
iron, solder sucker, cutters, etc, and probably a 'scope or logic
analyser as well. Which means having to use a screwdriver on the case
screws is no big deal I am suprised it did any damage, actually. Every
SMPSU I've worked on has
current limiting, and just about anything you can do to the outputs
(short them to ground or to each other) will shut the power supply down,
but won't do any permanent damage. I'd be interested to know just what
did fail.
The fuse near the AC input did blow but it appears to have blown too late.
There are multiple scorch marks all over the board. At least three
resistors no longer "resist" and one transistor seems dead also. Now, why did the disk drive do that?
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