Apple /// Power Supply

[Jim Battle]

Tony Duell wrote:
>> On 5/27/07, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> somehow I fail to see the logic of replacing an entire
>>> p/s when 3 minutes of soldering would alleviate the
>>> problem...
>> Somehow that doesn't surprise me. . .
> 
> I thought I was the person who always propsed component-level rapair and 
> generally got flamed for it...

Let's not get into that again.

> But perhaps you can explain why soldering in a new capacitor, which is 
> presumable a standard part available from just about any decent 
> electronics suppier, is mroe work than tracking down a somwwhat rare PSU. 

Tony, you have lots of time on your hands.  Many people here have a job, 
a wife, and kids that take priority over any hobby activity.  You have 
space to set up a nice workshop, and not everybody is so well supplied 
as you.  If Eric can send an email, proffer some money, receive a power 
supply in mail, plug in the new power supply and go, I can easily 
imagine it takes less of his time than to fix it.

ChrisM said it would take three minutes to fix the power supply.  That 
is horse byproduct.  It takes my soldering iron more than three minutes 
to get hot.  :-)  Many of us don't have a well supplied junk box, so it 
still takes a trip to an electronics shop or a web order to get the 
replacement.  Disassembling the power supply, cleaning up the mess from 
the faulty cap(s), unsoldering, soldering in the new one, reassembling 
the case ... it all adds up.

I can't speak for Eric, but I can easily imagine making a similar choice.