Re: Apple //e Power Supplies

[russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <20010223020118.02994.00002350@ng-cs1.aol.com>,
Quadrajet1 <quadrajet1@aol.com> wrote:
>
>    Basically the power supples were made by either Dyna-Comp or Astec.  The
>longer power supplies supplied a higher current rating than did the shorter
>ones.  I prefer the Astec power supplies any day, but the older ][+ power
>supplies had a bad design flaw that caused a cap to fail.

Only if you used the switch on the back.  If you plugged them into a
power strip they'd work fine.  I forgot one day, after years of not
using that switch, flipped it and... bang, dead power supply.



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