Re: bad IIe/IIgs Power Supplies (Help)

[wernst@deltanet.com (Warren 'Llama' Ernst)]

hemi@ddi.digital.net (Stephen Heminger) wrote:

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>I work for a School board repairing apple computers.  I have been
>replacing power supplies in IIes and IIgss.  They all just quit and there
>is no power.  I have not had the time to bother troubleshooting the power
>supplies and am wondering if anyone knows if there is a cronic fairlure in
>these supplies.  If there is, what components fail most frequently.  I
>sort of get the fealing that they all have failed in the same way, but its
>just a hunch.  It would save the schools a lot of money if I could repair
>these rather than replace them.  Any help would be greatly appreciated by
>many people.  Thanks
>
For the 8bit apples, the power SWITCH, of all things, was historically
the weak link, which was at least as much a reason as heat management
that Kinsington sold all those System Saver II fan thingies. The GS
had a stronger switch.

The fact that they all seems to have gone bad at once suggests that it
aint a switch problem and that there we probably a pretty massive
surge that occured there recently.

-Warr
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