[sllug-members]: Zapped power supply

[Lucas Paul]

First of all, unless you've been specifically trained and have a
certification for it, you shouldn't be opening up power supplies.  They're
dangerous on the inside.

Secondly, you're probably right.  It's probably fried.  If I were in your
position, I'd also consider just buying a power supply.  Newegg has some
decent deals, and there's always eBay of course.  You might find that the
right power supply from the right source would be much cheaper than buying a
whole machine just for the one part.  If I come across a spare, I'll let you
know.

On Dec 16, 2007 2:21 PM, David J Iannucci <fyyht at punchcutter.ml1.net> wrote:

> I hope someone here can give me some advice :-) Yesterday I opened up my
> wife's tower PC and decided to clean out some of the dust while I was in
> there. While using a compressed-air can to blow some of it out, I
> accidentally turned the can at an angle and blew some of the propellant
> liquid straight into my power supply.
>
> Well, shortly after that the machine would run for a little while and
> then suddenly power would be cut. This happened twice before I decided
> not to chance any further damage :-/  I've opened up the power supply,
> and find there's some dried white foamy stuff on some of the
> capacitors(?). Don't know if that's normal and was there previously,
> but I can't imagine there's anything reasonable I could do to salvage
> the thing.
>
> The p/s is a Foxlink FTPS-0302 350W supply.  The machine originally came
> from University Surplus and I'm thinking of going up there tomorrow to
> buy another cheap machine to cannibalize the p/s, but if anyone has any
> advice on a better way to deal with this, or a better place to buy a
> compatible p/s, or if you've got one lying around that will work for me
> that you'd sell cheap enough, I'd like to hear from you :-)
>
> My wife is really tied at the hip to this machine (running openSUSE 10.1
> but was planning to reinstall it with Ubuntu :-), and no matter what,
> I've got to get something up and running for her again soon :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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