[ale] fried innards

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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.

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.

Sean

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On Tuesday, August 06, 2013 03:11:21 pm Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> On 8/6/2013 2:54 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > Power supply is a replacement. Got burned years ago buy a cheap power
> > supply. I no longer remember the specs on this one, but it is AT
> > LEAST 30% larger than necessary.
> > 
> > BUT, the box itself is more than 7 years old, and the mobo/cpu and
> > power supply are five years old, as are the RAID-1 drives.
> > 
> > Everything else seems to be working as it should. I'm thinking this
> > may be the "handwriting on the wall." If that's the case, I'd better
> > go get a lottery ticket! :)
> > 
> > Sean
> 
> <snip>
> Like someone mentioned above, it was probably a loose/bad connection,
> but still it's very odd.  Trying to imagine what could go short in A
> DVD-ROM to allow that kind of current draw.  Filter Caps? reverse
> voltage protection Diode?  If all is working as it was sans the DVD,
> you're probably OK.  But for my information, what brand is the power
> supply?
> 
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