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From: jporter@twaddle.dell.com (Jeff Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Repairing a power supply
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Date: 21 Feb 91 16:15:31 GMT
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In article <60715@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, cook@acsu.buffalo.edu (john m cook) writes:
|> 
|>      I had my XT 150watt power supply blow a fuse.  I don't want to
|> spend money buying a new power supply.  I would just like to buy a new
|> fuse.  Does any one know where I can buy a fuse??
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> John Cook

If the fuse is the **ONLY** thing that went wrong with the power supply,
you might be able to find a new fuse at Radio Shack or such and replace it.

If any of the internal components failed (and caused the fuse to blow), you
might as well throw the power supply away.  PC-type power supplies are all
switching power supplies, and if one component fails, it will most likely
take out several others with it.  Switching power supplies, especially the
no-name-made-in-some-Far-East-country ones, are not economically to repair.
It doesn't make sense to put it $500 worth of labor to fix a $100 power
supply.

Jeff Porter
jporter@twaddle.dell.com