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[NightSprinter]

To start off, don't make fun of me about this. I got my XE Game System in the mail yesterday, and well.. I got a bit too impatient wanting to try it out and connected an old C64 power supply to it. The piece on the circuitboard that has a copper wire wrapped around it numerous times behind the power connector's socket has still been emitting a sort of burnt odor for over a day now (despite it's been unplugged for that long). Is there any way I can replace this piece? I really don't want my "new" XEGS to have gone down the drain after I finally acquired one..

[Chunder]

NightSprinter, on Tue Oct 4, 2005 11:00 PM, said:

To start off, don't make fun of me about this.

Damn - there's precious else that I can say that wouldn't be making fun of you. What posessed you?!

[NightSprinter]

You didn't read that completely? I was impatient. I'm gonna buy a power supply off eBay from MyAtari and pay for priority shipping.

[classics]

NightSprinter, on Wed Oct 5, 2005 3:22 PM, said:

You didn't read that completely?   I was impatient.  I'm gonna buy a power supply off eBay from MyAtari and pay for priority shipping.

You can simply remove that and replace it with a jumper wire.

The chances that the unit still works at all after being plugged into an AC supply are pretty low.

Steve

[carmel_andrews]

NightSprinter, on Wed Oct 5, 2005 3:22 PM, said:

You didn't read that completely?   I was impatient.  I'm gonna buy a power supply off eBay from MyAtari and pay for priority shipping.

C64-Atari (as MS word would say) 'Please consider revising', seriously though, c64 and Atari psu use different voltage levels and i don't think they use the same pin connections

I wouldn't let anything (apart from joysticks) that's been near a c64 anywhere near my atari (my atari is too priceless to doing silly things like that, patient or impatient)

[NightSprinter]

Yes, Yes C_A.. I know I did a 100% idiotic thing. I can say thankfully the odor is going away completely now. Depending on whether or not the Flashback 2 I got at wal-mart is the good one or not I'll see about springing for an XEGS power supply from B&C ComputerVision's auctions. Since it'll be $23 to get a new Rev. 6 XE power supply with Priority Mail shipping, I can really test it then.

Classics, what do you mean by remove the inductor and replace it with a jumper wire? (I found out what it was thanks to a friend from Australia who's worked on a lot of electronics in the past.)

Edited by NightSprinter, Wed Oct 5, 2005 10:03 PM.

[classics]

I mean the inductor is just a noise filtering component. If you dont have a suitable replacement you can just remove it from the PCB and put jumper wires across the two circuits it normally completes.

Steve