<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331, +1-204-515-1701, +1-204-515-1700, +1-810-471-4600, +1-909-361-6005<br></span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 February 2016 at 15:51, Adam Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net" target="_blank">athompso@athompso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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-Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 15, 2016 3:48:01 PM CST, Trevor Cordes <<a href="mailto:trevor@tecnopolis.ca" target="_blank">trevor@tecnopolis.ca</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre>On 2016-02-15 Adam Thompson wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> You have to fake out (short??) at least one signal on the motherboard<br> connector for the PSU to continue delivering power.<br></blockquote><br>Even for AT PS? (*not* ATX)<br><br>My plan is to cut off the connectors completely and just wire up the 5V<br>wire(s) to a non-standard connector I need for the project.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> know the PSU died if that's a major concern. I'm assuming you aren't<br> going to run out of spare AT PSUs anytime soon ;-). -Adam<br></blockquote><br>Nope, but wouldn't want these things bursting into flames...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></pre></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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