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Description: I done it! Wonder why nobody think about this first...:roll:
Picture Stats: Views: 1522 Filesize: 214.34kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: rkauer at December 29, 2007, 04:08:26 AM Image Linking Codes
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| rkauer Posts:3263 | March 02, 2008, 11:17:52 PM All AT/ATX PSU have discharger resistors in parallel with the high voltage capacitors, so is a question to wait ~20 minutes for the discharge and you can work on it. |
| AMC258 Posts:877 
| February 17, 2008, 02:55:28 AM And, a lot noisier, both audibly and electrically. You *can* get a nasty jolt playing around with disassembled switching power supplies if you're not careful. Switching power supplies charge large capacitors to high DC potential. Mains disconnected or not, should you find yourself across one of those caps, you're going to be hurting, at the least! |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | January 12, 2008, 07:06:02 PM From where? Once the PSU case is closed you don't have mains live wires to touch. It behaves exactly like a regular Amiga brick (only with a "little" more juice);-) |
| cv643d Posts:1197 | December 29, 2007, 04:07:49 PM Many have done that before, but you should be careful not to get an electric shock from it. |
| Painkiller Posts:255
| December 29, 2007, 01:53:13 PM Because I modded my ATX PSU inside A1200 case  |