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Shoutout to the guy at the Portland swap meet who sold me a 'working' power supply
I bought a cheap power supply there last year for a monitor repair. The seller swore it was pulled from a working unit. Got it home, hooked it up, and it let out a loud pop and a puff of smoke that smelled like burnt plastic. It fried the main board I was trying to fix, turning a $50 job into a $150 paperweight. Now I test every single used part, even if the seller seems honest, before I connect it to a customer's device. I keep a cheap load tester in my kit just for swap meets. Has anyone else learned this lesson the hard way with second hand parts?
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the_hayden21d ago
That Portland smoke cloud is why I test everything, even from honest sellers like logan236.
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