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Re: burning smell



On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:31:14PM -0800, Daniel Dent wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > I have some spare psu bits (including fan) do you recon its worth
> > replacing the fan? or just stick an alternative psu?
> 
> Well, in theory its a bad idea to open up a PSU, what with
> the capacitors that can store lethal amounts of energy...

If you leave it for a few hours after disconnecting the power, you
should be safe. The power supply should have resistors to discharge the
capacitors when they're switched off.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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