[wellylug] 2nd blown up powersupply

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:53, Tony Wills wrote:
> At 20:53 13/04/2005, Jethro wrote:
> >...I've just had my second blown up powersupply, since november in my
> >desktop. The power supply is a "Thermaltake W0035RAD, Silent Purepower
> >410W ATX PSU".
> ...
> 
> I was going to say that although I've worked with computer hardware for 20 
> years I hardly ever see a power supply that blows up unless either the fan 
> dies and it over heats or someone switches it to 120V input instead of 
> 240V.  But I decided not to bother as my comments weren't really very 
> helpful ;-)
> 
> Today I pulled out of my pile of useful junk an oldish computer (PII 
> 350MHz) that I've had sitting around for a while and plugged it in - 
> flash!, bang!, smoke! from the power supply - worked fine last time I used 
> it! ... double checked that the input voltage was set to 240V, checked the 
> mains voltage (233V according to my multimeter), looked out the window - 
> fine day not much lightning about.  Opened up the power supply, no not a 
> blown fuse or exploded capacitor, just a black area on the circuit board 
> and a burnt out coil.
> 
> Oh I thought, a bit of bad luck, ok such things happen, just some faulty 
> component.  So I reset the circuit breaker, pulled out another identical 
> computer (well identical model), made sure it was switched off.  Plugged 
> everything in, switched on ... for half a second nothing happened, then 
> flash!, bang!, smoke! from the power supply.
> 
> At this point I decided to go back to bed rather than investigate whether 
> both power supplies have taken everything else with them (ram, cpu, 
> motherboard, harddisk, cdrom ?).  Now dead power supplies don't usually 
> take out everything but this doesn't seem to be a usual occurrence and I'm 
> not really sure that I want to know, I'm not feeling very lucky :-(

ouch!

And I thought I had it bad!

Maybe it's a problem with that particular socket...

Hopefully the powersupply sacrificed itself so that nothing else blew
up...


 
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-- Jethro Carr

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