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I am The Finn, episode X in a series of N
In the past 24 hours I have had no less than three DC power supplies die on me. One killed off my 5-CD changer, which hasn't been used much since I ripped everything to MP3 a few years ago, so that's no great loss. The other two were the original PSU for the only decent non-laptop screen in the house - a 15" LCD, uncased -which died at some point since I last fired up said screen (or perhaps as I fired up said screen) and the other I had cannibalised from a 3com hub, but it couldn't handle the load and melted something vital internally after about an hour. So now I've solved the problem by resorting to my Finn-like heap of as-yet undiscarded junk, and rigging up the following gem:
To clarify this detailed yet detail-less photo: I have a generic AT power supply - in locating which, I discovered two more dead PSUs of the AT genre; onto one of the drive connectors, I've attached an extension whose sole purpose in life is to split out the 12V lines for some other device, probably a fan; onto that, I had long ago grafted a cigarette lighter socket, to allow me to use cigarette-lighter-driven toys at my desk; and onto that, I've attached through friction alone the power lead from the original LCD PSU. It's all working fine, and if the LCD can take out a 200W power supply I'll be pretty impressed.
To clarify this detailed yet detail-less photo: I have a generic AT power supply - in locating which, I discovered two more dead PSUs of the AT genre; onto one of the drive connectors, I've attached an extension whose sole purpose in life is to split out the 12V lines for some other device, probably a fan; onto that, I had long ago grafted a cigarette lighter socket, to allow me to use cigarette-lighter-driven toys at my desk; and onto that, I've attached through friction alone the power lead from the original LCD PSU. It's all working fine, and if the LCD can take out a 200W power supply I'll be pretty impressed.
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The last time I put together something like this was for a replacement battery for my old incancescent headlight, using NiMH "D" cells. What eventually happened is that the connection to the headlight shorted and melted the plug out of shape.
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