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From: kamath@reed.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Power supplies
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 13:13:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 13:13:36 1987
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Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
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In article <1086@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dryfoo@athena.mit.edu (Gary L. Dryfoos) writes:
>
>By the way, what is the problem with only one ground wire?

The main problem is that some components on the motherboard are not
properly grounded, leading to minor errors and/or major ones.  AS noted,
I am going to wait for mine to die before I replace it.  Also, when a
friend of mine's power supply died, he bought a new one and gave me the
old one.  I took it apart and saw that the fuse had blown in it.  It's
an awfully tiny one, but it so happens that the Imagewriter spares kit
has a fuse about the same size.  I replaced it and it seems to work just
fine.  I think it was due to flipping the on/off switch to rapidly
(yeah, I'm the one who fried it :-(), and this caused the fuse to
overload.  Moral of the story, you can fix a power supply (but DON'T
tell 'em who told you you could) and don't cycle the on/off switch too
fast.

Sean Kamath
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