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    Title: Proxima & PSU Tests
    Created: 21.02.2008 19:59
    These are the pictures from my adventures fixing a Proxima Ultralight and testing some ATX power supplies.
    Proxima Ultralight SV1+
    Proxima Ultralight S...    		 I couldn't resist a little fun on the projector... Haha. (Alba18/PangyaJP -> Tsukaya [only really on alba now that pangyajp has banned all non-japanese IPs]).
    I couldn't resist a ...    		 The Proxima, newly fixed, in its new home: The meeting room.
    The Proxima, newly f...    		 So, I'm missing a few pictures; but basically: The fuse from the burnt PSU was the same as the one in the Proxima, and after a bit of soldering on the Proxima and some hot glue (to prevent more burning on it's board) it was back up and running! I saved my company like $1000.
    So, I'm missing a fe...
    A really, really burnt PSU. But the fuse was still intact... Hmmm....
    A really, really bur...    		 Here's the setup I used for testing the PSUs. You can see my super-hard-to-make PS_ON tool plugged into the end of the mobo plug.
    Here's the setup I u...    		 My super-hard-to-make tool for getting the ATX power supplies to power up. This shorts the PS_ON (pin 14) to a ground (I use pin 15).
    My super-hard-to-mak...    		 Here we can see problem two: A blown fuse. (it's ceramic so I had to use my multimeter)
    Here we can see prob...
    Here we can see one of the problems with the PSU: The board is badly burnt, and some connections are no longer ... connected.
    Here we can see one ...    		 This is a non-functional power supply from an old Proxima Ultralight SV1+ projector that my office was going to throw out.
    This is a non-functi...