Belkin 'Y' adapter blew out 2 4000's

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Surely this kind of thing is a flaw of the original Amiga hardware. Shouldn't there be fuses integrated through the motherboard to prevent one single overload destroying everything?

I read about Dave Haynie's prototype AAA board being fried by the engineers due to a wobbly memory socket short circuit.

Maybe you could contact that French Amiga repair company:
http://www.amigacenter.com/Homer.html

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Whilst I can sort of understand that 12V might fry circuits intended for 5V I could never work out why static would do so.

Also, what was +12v and -12v for in relation to the serial port?

I think this is a case of complete company neglience, I would usually expect to fry something myself - not for the product involved to be the killer!

:-(

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Another potential problem I've heard of is when people are making home-brew parallel port network cables.

The 2.5" IDE header on the A1200 motherboard isn't perfect either (it's hard to spot the '0' number printed on the motherboard and the header can be put on back to front).

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I think all circuit boards and chips should be made brilliant white so you can easily see when things have burnt, leaked or popped!

:-D