A fool and his PSU [Archive]

Risky

18th February 2005, 00:05

For some reason I fealt competted to attack a perfectly good Neopower PSU this evening. I am plannign to use a couple of small 240V neon indicators so I can see if the psu is connected, or switched on from inside the case (A little reminder for me, you see). The red neon goes accross the power socket pins and the green is the other side of the switch.

After much ado I have a nice tidy hole in..... the roof of the psu :rant: so I wouldn't be able to see it. Will do again correctly tomorrow, I guess.

Now that I'm right way up I realised I really need to be able to discoonect tehm if I open the PSU case up again. Any ideas on good connectors fro a disconnect. At the moment the old fall back of scre terminals is looking good.

Pug

26th February 2005, 13:49

...
After much ado I have a nice tidy hole in..... the roof of the psu :rant: so I wouldn't be able to see it. Will do again correctly tomorrow, I guess.
...

Hehe, reminds me of the time I 'window-modded' my floppy drive... :D

[Semi-OT] PSU in Hex blew up last week. My 120mm modded one - I think I left it too long between dust cleanings. :(

fillip

26th February 2005, 13:50

Hehe, reminds me of the time I 'window-modded' my floppy drive... :D

That's attention to detail/taking modding too far*

*Delete as applicable

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Pug

26th February 2005, 16:51

That's the _'cos I can_ mantra coming into effect... combined with a dash of 'Ooh, I wonder why no-ones ever done this... *whirr*, *bzzing*, *brrrrr*, *plink*... oh... That's why!' :D

fillip

26th February 2005, 16:52

http://wizdforums.co.uk/images/smilies/laugh.giflol.

Starbuck3733T

27th February 2005, 18:39

I've got that 'I wonder why' mentallity too, but also the 'i hope no-one has done tihs before' attitude, at least with what i refer to as 'my new project'- a set of amorphous ideas that are constantly changing in my head as to what i build next.

Da_Rude_Baboon

28th February 2005, 10:01

SO what did happen exactly pug? Did it do anything spectacular or just stop working?

Risky

28th February 2005, 22:12

It ended up with four holes drilled and no lamps fitted as I wanted to get the rig rolling again..........later....?

Pug

4th March 2005, 17:02

SO what did happen exactly pug? Did it do anything spectacular or just stop working?
Oh no... it still works. (the *bzzt* etc was my crappy dremel impression :p )
It's just that, well, you never see the top of a floppy drive do ya?..
Saying that - it mainly gets used as an external drive nowadays, so it ain't so bad. ;)