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SMS

Jan 1, 1970
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Matt said:
There is that... but $25 for an adapter is a lot cheaper and easier than
an hour or more of my time to pull all the cards, remove the board,
desolder one fuse, find an appropriate replacement, solder it back in,
and reassemble everything, and pray that that was the actual fix :)

You don't have to use a fuse, just jumper it. The fuse is there because
of stupid UL requirement, where they are worried that a short in the
keyboard cable will heat the cable up and start a fire. When I worked at
a motherboard company, we didn't use a fuse for countries where the
safety agency didn't require it. I couldn't believe that is was actually
any cheaper to put in a jumper than a fuse, but it saved about 3 cents
per motherboard, and we were manufacturing hundreds of thousands of
boards per month.
 
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Frank Olson

Jan 1, 1970
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Petem said:
At least he can say that he doesn't know something..

that's a lot better then asking like a jerk that THINK he knows
everything...what was it? was it "bond".....LOL

even me I was able to recognized the Declaration of Independence....And I am
not an American...Geeeee


Shhh! He still thinks its "against code" to hook up a 110VAC smoke
alarm to your home's security system. No wait... He *also* thinks that
connecting any kind of fire detection to your home security system turns
it into a *fire alarm* system...
 
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Matt Ion

Jan 1, 1970
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SMS said:
You don't have to use a fuse, just jumper it. The fuse is there because
of stupid UL requirement, where they are worried that a short in the
keyboard cable will heat the cable up and start a fire. When I worked at
a motherboard company, we didn't use a fuse for countries where the
safety agency didn't require it. I couldn't believe that is was actually
any cheaper to put in a jumper than a fuse, but it saved about 3 cents
per motherboard, and we were manufacturing hundreds of thousands of
boards per month.

Fair'nuff... it's still more effort than simply plugging in an adapter that I'm
gonna bill back to the client anyway :)
 
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