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Offline dino00Topic starter

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Reversed polarity of power cable!!!
« on: October 26, 2006, 10:08:02 PM »
Hello to everyone!

I'm new to to the forum (as far as writing that is, 'cause I've been reading for a while now) and I would like to congratulate everyone for a job well done.

I really hoped that my first post would be different and not as stupid but you know... bad things happen.
Anyway thing is that a couple of weeks ago, I was doing some cleaning inside my beloved A500+. So I disconnected the inside power cable (the little cable that connects to a white connector on the A500+ mainboard), did a bit of cleaning and then I connected it without noticing that its polarity was wrong. When I powered the Amiga up there this sound, quite a bit of smell and the Amiga is now obviously dead.
My question is this: how can I understand what got burned and repair it? What would be the "usual suspects" i.e. the components that most probably got burned? Is a repair a viable solution or should I forget about my glorious A500+?

Thank you all!
Byez!
 

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Re: Reversed polarity of power cable!!!
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2006, 07:26:57 PM »
Hi to everyone!

Sorry for taking so long to reply and thanks to everyone for their valuable suggestions.
A special thank you to banzai for the extremelly detailed answer.
Hope you're right mate and the only thing that's fried is the drive.
Going to check the PSU first and then see if I can power up without the drive.
Once again thank you all and I'll keep you informed (if the PSU doesn't blow me up that is  :lol: )
Byezzz