Yes, those garbage-can-sized capacitors can explode and fill the room with a dense whitish smoke (and stink), and it makes a very loud bang at the moment of explosion. That tends to end your OS session too.
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On 15 February 2016 at 15:51, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:
I think even the AT spec wanted to see a PWR_OK signal or it could shut itself down. I could be wrong, and I'm too lazy to look it up right now. Worst case, you just need to splice two wires together when you hack off the connector.
Even AT-eta supplies had adequate internal protection against, e.g. bursting into flames, I wouldn't worry too much about that. They did often have big electrolytic caps, though, *those* could potentially be a problem regardless of unbalanced power draw.
-Adam -Adam
On February 15, 2016 3:48:01 PM CST, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
On 2016-02-15 Adam Thompson wrote:
You have to fake out (short??) at least one signal on the motherboard connector for the PSU to continue delivering power.
Even for AT PS? (*not* ATX)
My plan is to cut off the connectors completely and just wire up the 5V wire(s) to a non-standard connector I need for the project.
know the PSU died if that's a major concern. I'm assuming you aren't
going to run out of spare AT PSUs anytime soon ;-). -Adam
Nope, but wouldn't want these things bursting into flames...
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