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Stupid mistake of the day...

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eLiu

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Ok...so I was swapping power supplies on my machines to try and figure out if the motherboard in this computer is screwed up or not...

And well, when plugging the floppy in, I screwed up, and put the power dongle in off one connector (so connector 1 was in the space for connector 2, and so on...with connector 4 unconnected). Turned the power on...things start smoking.

The red wire on the floppy got really hot and melted through the covering (so it's explosed wire now). When I pulled the dongle out of the floppy drive, it took one of the power connectors out with it.

Now...my questions:
1) The floppy drive is dead, yes? Nothing I can do to save it?
2) What can I do with that f-ed up power cable? It has an explosed wire, so I figure I need to do something about it. Should I wrap the thing in electrical tape? Or just cut the wire off completely at the base?
3) new floppies--are all drives created equal? If not...Sony, Teac, or NEC...which is better?

Thanks,
-Eric

(yes, laugh all you want at my stupidity 😛)
 
Cut the burned wire. slide a piece of heat shrink tubing, a little longer then the exposed wire, over the exposed wire. splice the cut you made, and pull the tubing over the exposed wire and heat the tubing to shrink it in place.

As for a new floppy drive I like Teac. What ever brand you use pay attention to where the #1 pin is some it is next to the power supply cable and some it is reversed.




The Grump
 
Originally posted by: Grumpy1
Cut the burned wire. slide a piece of heat shrink tubing, a little longer then the exposed wire, over the exposed wire. splice the cut you made, and pull the tubing over the exposed wire and heat the tubing to shrink it in place.

As for a new floppy drive I like Teac. What ever brand you use pay attention to where the #1 pin is some it is next to the power supply cable and some it is reversed.




The Grump
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Uh, I don't know how to do that...I don't even know what heat shrink tubing is. Is there anything simpler I can do...? Heh sorry, I mean I killed this thing in the first place..guess I'm not too adept at this stuff.
 
It is very simple. Heat shrink tume is avalible at radio shack. Very cheap. It is hollow, flexible, plastic tubing and when heated shrinks tightly around what ever it is put around. All you have to do is cut off a piece with scissors slide it over the wire re connect the wire slide the tube over the bare wire and heat with a bic lighter, keeping the lighter moveing so as not to catch the tubing on fire. It will only take you five minutes. The last time I bought the tubing it was $1.50 for a variety pack of different sizes.

The Grump
 
Ah, that sounds straightfoward enough. Thanks Grumpy1.

Also...do you think I should replace the power supply? Or will the loss of one floppy connector not hurt anything else? (There is a 2nd floppy connector, so I'm not feeling any pain from its loss.)
 
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