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First major setback
seanp:
Well, I've had some ups and downs, but had my first MAME cabinet working pretty well. I have a fighter-style control panel in a Berzerk cabinet (long past recoverable - I only know the model because Eyedoc told me about it when I got it from him). I found a coindoor on Ebay for cheap, and was wiring some lightbulbs to the computer power supply. In my eagerness to see if they worked, I didn't tape off the wires... well Murphy's law, they touched, and the whole computer went dark. As best I can tell, I blew the power supply. Hopefully everything else survived... I haven't had the heart to pull everything out, swap the supply, and try to power it up.
I don't really have a question, just wanted to share my pain. STUPID STUPID STUPID. Be carefull with electricity, boys and girls. This is why I don't mess with arcade monitors. ;D
-Sean
paigeoliver:
I have shorted +5 in a computer multiple times in the past. Sometimes the power supply will actually start working again in a short period of time, the times it didn't it turned out everything else was still good.
RayB:
It will depend on the power supply. Some PSU's will shut down when shorted, rather than get damaged. I learned when I went and cut off a small fan's wires while the PC was power up. Didn't occur to me that my pocketknife would bridge the two wires! DUH! The PC immediately turned off (and of course i got that sinking feeling) but it booted back up just fine. (Power supply is a high-end newish P4 style one)
Hoagie_one:
you have a ghost in your computer, sell it on Ebay for thousands
daywane:
you also might get lucky and find a blown fuse inside of power supply.
I did.
see we all ahve had our head up there also.