Steven Hirsch wrote:
On 06/10/2011 09:46 AM, schmidtd wrote:On Jun 10, 8:32 am, Steven Hirsch<snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:It will just smell bad when warm.I have one that has a semi-pleasing, kind of outdoorsy wood smoke sort of scent. Did I just get lucky, or maybe not much leaked out, or am I just olfactorily challenged?You have the Martha Stewart limited-edition power supply. The stock supply smells like a skunk mixed with essence of Jersey-shore chemical refinery - maybe not even that good...
I'd agree--the usual X2 type line bypass capacitor has an impregnant that is quite revolting! Congratulations on having one with a tolerable odor. ;-) BTW, the supply will function perfectly without the line bypass capacitor, but it will put some switching harmonics back into the AC line (which could cause some interference) and it makes the supply a bit more vulnerable to fast overvoltage transients (so don't run the Apple on a line running an elevator motor ;-). I picked up several replacements on eBay for a few bucks, total. -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."