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

On 22/2/07 19:39, "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: Well, tonight I stripped the PSU down and there aren't any filtering caps, at least not the X type ones I'm familiar with. Instead the mains cable plugs into a honking big sealed tin box that terminates in a 2 inch earth wire and 2 spade connectors that the live and neutral hook up to. Said earth wire is bolted to the chassis and joined to a similar bolt holding the fan to the case. 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. In other news the NeXT cube I picked up yesterday in a non-working state has a bad hard drive that's drawing too much off the PSU. Bah. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?