Re: Do G08's REALLY start on fire ?

Thanks for the response John. Had a week business trip in the middle here
and it's put me behind on e-mail.

On Sun, 14 May 2000, John Robertson wrote:

> wonky. This is the normal cause of monitor failure, the power supply
> drifts, or the ground contact burns up, then the input voltages to the
> monitor X/Y drives goes outside of normal bounds...Smoke erupts....I

OK, so we are talking about normal 'magic smoke' that means the machine is
toast, but I shouldn't really be worried about the cabinet bursting into
flames and burning my house down ?

> recommend that ANY SEGA game or any game with a GO-8 monitor get a computer
> grade switching power supply installed instead of the original supply AND
> you put a cutoff relay in that will disconnect power to the monitor when
> the power supply looses it's 5VDC. The simplest method to do this is to

Good advice. I knew I kept that box of XT power supplies for a reason.
:-)

Thanks !

-Chris

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WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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