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- From: dave@scg8a.scg.hac.com (Dave)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: A500 power supply
- Keywords: A500 power
- Message-ID: <23225@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 07:13:41 GMT
- Sender: news@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM
- Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co. SCG
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- Hi,
- I suspect this is a FAQ, but it hasn't come up in the last 800 or so posting
- (except one partial intersect sans followups) and I have not seen a FAQ in
- net.answers. Is there an Amiga FAQ somewhere?
-
- I have an Amiga A500. It has run fairly happily for several years, except the
- power supply starting ringing a couple years ago. It kept getting louder and
- one day after I stepped away for a bit, I returned to find my Amiga dead
- (no lights, etc). Looked inside the power supply and saw a fuse was blown,
- so I tried replacing it. It immediately blows when turned on, so I assume
- the power supply is fried.
-
- I was about to order a Big Foot when I thought it might be a kinda amusing
- project to put one together from a PC power supply (remember reading several
- references to such). Does anyone know of a source where I might be able
- to FTP instructions or of a periodical I could order with such an article?
- If this is an inadviseable project, then is a Big Foot a good replacement?
-
- Thanks in advance!
- Bye,
- Dave
- P.S. My config is very basic, 1MB RAM, 2 floppies.
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