Be glad you didn't buy this failed power supply

[RRunner]

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

[RRunner]

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

Nope. I missed the part where anyone ever said it was sold as a commercial product. I got the impression from the thread that the buyer was well aware that this something created by the seller and that they were only paying $35. I guess if I was lead to believe I was buying a professionally built commercial product, I'd be a little miffed.

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

[RRunner]

redrumloa wrote:

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...

 :popcorn:

You know, I could show you lots of articles about laptops catching on fire because of faulty or overloaded batteries. What percentage is that? So does that mean I should not use a laptop for fear that my house is going to burn down? I probably have a better chance at getting hit by a bus walking across the street. I'm sure there are articles on the web about that happening too but it doesn't mean I'm going to stop walking across the street!

The wall warts were plugged into an extension cord... yes. Were the two wall warts drawing more power than the extension cord could handle... I highly doubt it.

The fact of the matter is, someone bought a home made cheap power supply for $35. It died after only a few uses and they were ticked off. After opening it up they were even more upset to see that the power supply was a crudely constructed thing. Just because the solution was crude doesn't mean it wasn't safe. I haven't seen one thing in any of these threads that suggests to me that there was anything unsafe about it. Crude - yes, should have worked - yes, worth $35 - sure ($15 of labour for someone to buy the parts and put it together seems right)...

Would I have been upset if I was in that situation? Maybe. But once I realized the dual power requirements... what other cheap home made solution is possible?

Wow, what a lot of fighting over something so trivial. I can't imagine what the reaction would be to a really important or serious issue.
 :-D