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PSU failure images
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:28 am
by exxos
Submit your Atari PSU blow up images here
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Image by John Leonard.
Re: PSU failure images
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:44 pm
by exxos
Another blown cap - image from Andy Bailey.
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Re: PSU failure images
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:09 pm
by tzok
The latter one is tricky to spot, as they have a dome-shaped plastic cover on top, so you never know if it's the capacitor "ready to explode" or just the cap looks like this.
Re: PSU failure images
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:01 am
by rubber_jonnie
tzok wrote: ↑Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:09 pm
The latter one is tricky to spot, as they have a dome-shaped plastic cover on top, so you never know if it's the capacitor "ready to explode" or just the cap looks like this.
I just got one of these!!
The plastic dome is really quite annoying and unnecessary, not sure what they were thinking!