Be glad you didn't buy this failed power supply

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There is so much wrong with THIS I don't know where to start :crazy:

Dragos bought this piss poor power supply and it failed after a few hours.

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For the record I had no idea who made this power supply when I first posted the picture here. Now that the builder is known I want to be clear I think this gentleman did not have bad intentions, is that clear? I have personally bought custom roms from him and found him to be a nice guy. I would probably buy from him again, just not a custom power supply.

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Plaz wrote:
Nice case :-P, looks like all those holes were even drilled by hand. What was that suppy suppose to power?

Plaz

Commdore 64

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Sure it may be a little jury rigged, but it should work just as well as something more "factory made".

Actually no, especially it was sold as a professional product afaik. This looks like a train wreck and the fact it failed after only a couple hours of use proves it. Looking at the physical size of these wall warts, there is no way their amperage is rated high enough for the intended application. DC wall warts typically are not internally regulated, coupled being greatly undersized there is a huge potential of improper voltage levels. The fact this failed was luck, opposed to destroying the C64.

Furthermore these wall warts being loose plugged into an generic extension cord inside a plastic closure with no fusing is so wrong I don't know where to start. I guess the owner could have cooked marshmallows over his burning house..

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i have bought about 5 for my thinkpad t21 over the last 2 years

Egad! Don't use a wall wart with a laptop!! :eek:

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tokyoracer wrote:
Hehee, A ghetto Amiga PSU.

Almost, it was a ghetto C64 power supply  ;-)

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The discussion continues on lemon64.

As I posted on lemon64, I don't see ill intentions but it is ill-advised.

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RRunner wrote:
I think this whole thing is a lot of yelling and screaming about nothing and everyone is acting like a bunch of children. So a home made power supply for $35 failed. Bound to happen. All this quibbling about specs and crap is just ego and bolstering. Plug two wall warts for $10.00 each into the wall, hack off the ends and slap on a connector that will fit in the C64. No one would make a big deal about that and in fact I would be quite proud of myself for coming up with such a solution ASSUMING that the wall warts had the juice needed. All this crap about certification this and certification that is all just noise with people trying to come out with a superior ego IMHO. Suck it up, one of the power supplies was faulty and went belly up. Stuff happens.

I can't believe I read the whole thing!  :-o

It was sold as a commercial product and it could have easily burned down the buyers house. You think that is a joke?

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Homer wrote:
Hmm, Red,
I think you may have voided the warranty by opening it  :lol:

Not mine!!  :-o

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Also, what is the point of linking to this discussion on comp.sys.cbm, Lemon64 and elsewhere? To create a witch-hunt?

What are you going on about? The only link I have made is to the lemon64 forum, because the maker of this power supply has spoken out and is defending himself, right or wrong. Why are you so defensive? I have stated numerous times I don't think there were ill intentions here, just ill advised.

Ill advised is a kind way of saying WARNING!! THIS CAN BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE AND KILL THE OCCUPANTS

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For the record I had no idea who made this power supply when I first posted the picture here. Now that the builder is known I want to be clear I think this gentleman did not have bad intentions, is that clear? I have personally bought custom roms from him and found him to be a nice guy. I would probably buy from him again, just not a custom power supply.

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eslapion wrote:
...LIAR... this is no joke...

Fine then, I retract my statement that there was probably no ill intent.

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eslapion wrote:

As for burning down the house. I don't believe that for a minute. Right now I have several of those wall warts plugged into a power bar under my desk powering two routers, a cordless phone, a desk light and a scanner. I've had those things go bad in the past and all they do is stop working. Just because the extension cord was stuck in a case and the warts plugged in there instead of into a power bar or the wall didn't make it any more risky in my opinion. Now if the jury rigged plug for the C64 was messed up, that's a different story.

Anyways, just my $0.02 worth... and definitely not worth all the heated debate this topic is getting. But it has been entertaining reading.   :popcorn:

Now returning to my regularly scheduled program...   :-D

The voice of reason...

Extension cord used improperly burns down house.

[color=ff0000]Etter said that families should make sure that their smoke alarm is working properly and that all extension cords have the Underwriters Laboratories stamp. "You have to make sure you use an extension cord that is designed for the specific use you're using it for," he said.[/color][/b]

Give up while you are behind, you will not win this argument. You are just making things far worse for yourself.

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RRunner wrote:

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Give up while you are behind, you will not win this argument. You are just making things far worse for yourself.

How so? I'm just reading and responding for the entertainment value. I'm not trying to win any argument, was just trying to point out what seemed obvious to me. I'm not one of the parties involved in this but still, I can't believe that people are getting so worked up over this very minor issue. Very entertaining though...

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My response was not directed to you, it was to eslapion.

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I think YOU should give up before you have to face litigation on this.

You just keep digging your hole even deeper, you have no leg to sue anyone. As a matter of fact if anything your continuous blathering is opening yourself to legal troubles. You completely gloss over the NFPA code violation, and that is just the beginning. You claim to be an EE student, have you ever heard of the NFPA? I mean, without firing up Google?

Just drop it already, it was ill advised and you have moved on. Leave it at that.