[sllug-members]: Zapped power supply

[Travis & Melody Fisher]

David,

Where are you located? I'm about to toss some ATX cases & power supplies. I
you want a free power supply or two let me know. These are standard 20 pin,
not the newer 24 pin power supplies.

Hope that helps....

Travis



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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