Pole Position blowing the big fuse

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What would cause a PP to blow the big 20A (maybe 25, i forget off hand)
32v fuse in the power brick, seemingly for no apparent reason?

The game works fine, the AR2's were known good ones (i repaired them
and overhauled them personally for this person) and the problem occurs
on two completely seperate power bricks. One of which had been in use
on my bench for testing vector games for months without issue.

The only thing i can think of is that we don't have any 32v fuses so
we're using 240v 20A rather than 32v 20A, but surely that would be over
rating it, not under rating it, wouldn't it?

Don't suppose this is a common thing is it?

Don't remember if this is a PP2 board or a PP1 board, or if it does it
on both.

Martin.

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Aha, that might explain the butchered power block that i picked up at
the weekend that i since discovered came from a PP cockpit )

Had the same "hack"...

Thanks for the info, we'll give it a shot and see how we get on.

Martin.

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Doesn't a failing bridge on the underside of the brick cause this also?
Fixed my issues a few times after replacing it.

Paul


"Martin White" <guddler@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> What would cause a PP to blow the big 20A (maybe 25, i forget off hand)
> 32v fuse in the power brick, seemingly for no apparent reason?
>
> The game works fine, the AR2's were known good ones (i repaired them
> and overhauled them personally for this person) and the problem occurs
> on two completely seperate power bricks. One of which had been in use
> on my bench for testing vector games for months without issue.
>
> The only thing i can think of is that we don't have any 32v fuses so
> we're using 240v 20A rather than 32v 20A, but surely that would be over
> rating it, not under rating it, wouldn't it?
>
> Don't suppose this is a common thing is it?
>
> Don't remember if this is a PP2 board or a PP1 board, or if it does it
> on both.
>
> Martin.
>