<div dir="ltr">It is feasible that a crimp in the plug itself was poor and it finally hit the inflection point in the failure curve where it escalated rapidly. It's easy to pull 10-12A on the 12V rail and not trip the fuse as it's still below the fuse point but above the "turn the wire into a resistor" point.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I no longer remember the brand of power supply, but I do find it interesting that no brand name or electrical details are visible on the surfaces of the PSU that I can see.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Looking at the charred remains of the fried plug, I can see that both ground wires popped out of the plug and the 12 volt yellow wire has its insulation burned off for nearly 2 inches. Yet the PSU fuse did not trip.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Sean</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Tuesday, August 06, 2013 03:11:21 pm Calvin Harrigan wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> On 8/6/2013 2:54 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Power supply is a replacement. Got burned years ago buy a cheap power</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > supply. I no longer remember the specs on this one, but it is AT</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > LEAST 30% larger than necessary.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > BUT, the box itself is more than 7 years old, and the mobo/cpu and</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > power supply are five years old, as are the RAID-1 drives.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Everything else seems to be working as it should. I'm thinking this</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > may be the "handwriting on the wall." If that's the case, I'd better</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > go get a lottery ticket! :)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Sean</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> <snip></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Like someone mentioned above, it was probably a loose/bad connection,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> but still it's very odd. Trying to imagine what could go short in A</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> DVD-ROM to allow that kind of current draw. Filter Caps? reverse</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> voltage protection Diode? If all is working as it was sans the DVD,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> you're probably OK. But for my information, what brand is the power</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> supply?</p>
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