We were talking about hooking 'em up to 600volt welder outputs the other night on the General Chat. Now I have an excuse to get the welder out! Might trip a breaker though. Hmm. Gotta think of somethin' else.

To the HD with the bullet hole:

ROFLMAO!! Hey, I can make a lot of $$ off all these HDs and floppy drives lying around by selling them to the gun club down the road as shooting targets! Or sell 'em to my dad. [Linked Image]

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I once connected an old CD-ROM drive directly to 120V. I had an old power connector I cut off a dead power supply and wired that to a 120V cord.

It smoked and buzzed for about 10 seconds before it stopped.

When I took it apart, almost every chip on the board had a crater in it because the top blew off.

I know what I'm doing Tuesday when I have off!

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Ian, as far as I remember, I changed too from 110-220, I still don`t know what I did, but that pc never worked again.
Does it harm the motherboard, or just the power box?

Hmm, I would tell ya, but I fried my last "spare" ATX power supply last weekend when I plugged in one two many hard drives and CD-ROMS. Still have an AT lying around somewhere though. Nahh, can't fry that one, it actually works sometimes.

Ian A.

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Is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?