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@dkdkrd posted:

So, now correct me if I'm wrong in one more fact re PS2-5v mayhem; When it dies, you are TOTALLY dead.  IOW, you're not even going be able to run conventionally,

So I found myself in this situation with a PS2 5V stone cold dead. In fact it had gotten so hot it desoldered the capacitors right off the board. Again, this thing must have cooked and gotten nice and hot.

Well, I cut the bridge rectifier off the 5V board, kept the 5V regulator that is remotely mounted, and made this FM trainmaster run forward only reusing original "dead" parts.

Dead isn't dead, if you get creative.

Last edited by Vernon Barry
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