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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!spacek
- From: spacek@cactus.org (Mark S. Spacek)
- Subject: Re: Comm64 acting quirky
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.000418.15610@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <!97ma4.mvp@netcom.com> <1992Aug18.180517.16403@uwm.edu> <34638@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:04:18 GMT
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- In article <34638@cbmvax.commodore.com> fred@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Bowen) writes:
-
- >Under no circumstances should a power supply ever be placed in water and
- >operated! This is very dangerous, and you are risking serious injury, fire,
- >and/or major damage to your computer.
-
- Although it would probably work, water would make a good heat sink, it is
- potentially very dangerous and should obviously not be recommended.
-
- >If your power supply is hot, it should be serviced by a qualified technician
- >or replaced. A replacement power supply is not expensive.
-
- Commodore power supplies have always run at least warm, often hot. Especially
- the older black bricks. The newer white bricks are rated a bit higher and run
- somewhat cooler. I don't know about servicing them either. The qualified
- technicians I know service the C= bricks by buying another power supply, heh.
- Now, there is one thing you can do. Find a paved area and throw the brick as
- high up in the air as you can. If you are lucky, it will break open revealing
- the parts inside and you -might- be able to service it, heh. Make sure that
- the area you choose is free of traffic. Cars might flatten you, and the brick
- might flatten pedestrians. Oh, and watch out, if that bricks lands on you,
- you will be needing the service, not the power supply, ;) Actually, I do know
- one guy who managed to cut through the potting material and repair his power
- supply. He then mounted it on a BIG hunk of metal, for a heat sink. It
- worked pretty well, but no service folks I know of would go to that much
- trouble.
-
- >I've heard some incredible stories before, but this one almost beats my
- >all-time favorite from a PET user who said he had located the resistor
- >which made the screen 40 characters wide, but did not know whether to
- >double the value or halve it to get an 80 column display.
- >
- Or what about the guy who said that you could service a brick power supply?
- Sorry, I couldn't resist. Mark... (spacek@cactus.org)
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