80sFreak
Experienced Member
Last weekend I picked up an Atari 5200, power supply, RF adapter, two joysticks and a few games while visiting Bill D. (Read about the vintage computer goodness that went on here.) This system is in good shape but there is no power at the tip.. I look at the bottom of the supply and there are two screws.. I think to myself this should be a relative piece of cake. About an hour or so and many colorful metaphors later I dig off one of the rubber feet.. Lo and behold Atari (in their infinite wisdom) put screws under two of the feet! So once I removed *those* two screws the two pieces of the supply come apart easily...
Once I get it apart I see that the fuse does not look totally blown but it definitely looks like it needs replacing. Now to the next fun part - the fuse *looks* like it is held to PCB by these two "caps" with a wire soldered to the board.. I *thought* I would be able to remove the fuse from the caps, but found out that the cap is attached to the fuse. After quite a bit of searching on the web (and also trying to figure out what to search for!) I finally found this which is a Slo-Blo 5A 250V fuse with Axial or Pig-Tail leads. A picture of what it looks like is here. (PDF file)
So now I am waiting on my order from Digi-Key which has the fuse (plus a few more bits! ) and will (hopefully!) bring the 5200 back to life! :D
Cheers,
80sFreak
Once I get it apart I see that the fuse does not look totally blown but it definitely looks like it needs replacing. Now to the next fun part - the fuse *looks* like it is held to PCB by these two "caps" with a wire soldered to the board.. I *thought* I would be able to remove the fuse from the caps, but found out that the cap is attached to the fuse. After quite a bit of searching on the web (and also trying to figure out what to search for!) I finally found this which is a Slo-Blo 5A 250V fuse with Axial or Pig-Tail leads. A picture of what it looks like is here. (PDF file)
So now I am waiting on my order from Digi-Key which has the fuse (plus a few more bits! ) and will (hopefully!) bring the 5200 back to life! :D
Cheers,
80sFreak