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From: josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Power Supply for 286 compatible.
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.200705.6733@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:07:05 GMT
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akn9162@usl.edu (Nayak Anup K) writes:

>Hi Netters,
>	I have recently acquired a 286 compatible without any 
>doccumentation whatsoever. The brand is 'Miata'. While installing,
>it was powered on by mistake with the voltage selector at 230v position.

One is inclined to ask why it was in the 230V position in the first place...

>The power supply has gone dead and a friend estimated that it might
>take about $40 to  $50 worth of components to repair it. Can someone 
>suggest if it would be better to try to repair it or go for a new 
>power supply. Recently, someone posted that a PS may be available for 
>about $40. The power supply in my PC is a 'Senstron' make. If someone is 
>familiar with any sources for the said brand of PC or power supply,
>please mail me a list.I have checked some mail order sources from mags, but I
>can't be sure if the power supply provided by them will fit my PC (at
>least electrically). I will apreciate your suggestions.

NEVER NEVER NEVER repair those switching power supplies.  It is not worth it.
For about $80 dollars, you can get a real good power supply.  And the 
industry is pretty much standardized as far as power supplies go.  There's
the PC/XT sized supplies, and there are the full-size AT sized supplies.  In
either situation, just quoting the dimension is enough to figure which is
which (the AT one's are bigger).  

And you can certainly find the supplies for much cheaper by going through
mail-order houses.  As for 'electrical compatibility':  every motherboard
I have come across (at least 'clone' makers, anyways) uses the same power
connectors, and the voltages are the same.  That's one of the reason why
the IBM + clone market is so popular.   Everything in huge abundance, and
it's cheap.

>----Anup K Nayak
>email--- akn9162@usl.edu
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