Re: When should a power supply be declared Perma-Dead?

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <1148953112.594140.119300@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "General_Failure" <tristan.mumford@gmail.com> wrote:

> Don Bruder Said:
> >That tells me for certain that it's a PS problem, not a MB or card
> >problem, and further isolates it to the "high voltage" (110 volt)
> >section of the supply.
> 
> Totally. However what I am saying is that the short on the Z80 card
> worked as a catalyst to the whole thing. Because it was directly after
> the little fiasco with it that the supply died.

Could have been a contributing factor, yes, but it *WAS NOT* "The Cause" 
- You can take that to the bank. 

If a shorted low-voltage output on a SMPS was enough to wipe the high 
voltage side (whether rectifier, caps, or switching transistor) then the 
supply wasn't long for this world in the first place.

> I know it's neither here nor there, but the local voltage is 240 volts.

Aye that.

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