3rd party Mac SE power supplies?

[Christian Fritze]

The power supply on a friend's Mac SE just died a few days ago. He's quite
handy with electronics and computers and prefers to replace the dead supply
with a new one from a third party source if it will be cheaper than a visit
to his local Apple dealer. Anyone out there familiar with vendors who sell
power supplies for Macs? Will he save money this way? Thanks.
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Christian E. Fritze | AOL:geneman
University of Chicago | fr...@midway.uchicago.edu
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology | "No one ever died of laughing" -M.B.
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[William Kent Richards]

In article <1992Jan19....@midway.uchicago.edu> fr...@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>The power supply on a friend's Mac SE just died a few days ago. He's quite
>handy with electronics and computers and prefers to replace the dead supply
>with a new one from a third party source if it will be cheaper than a visit
>to his local Apple dealer. Anyone out there familiar with vendors who sell
>power supplies for Macs? Will he save money this way? Thanks.

He might want to look at the SE section in "Macintosh Repair and
Upgrade Secrets" by Larry Pina ($34) if he doesn't know the specifics
about removing and installing the powersupply. MacProducts wanted
$130 to repair my Plus power supply, and I got a kit to do it for $50.
Another third party company would swap it for $90. But I think the SE
power supply is a lot less complicated than the Plus's, so if he could
just buy the parts that he needs, then he might save a lot of money,
but if he needed to get the whole thing, my guess is that the margin
would be smaller.

Some companies he might check out: (from "Repair Secrets")

Soft Solutions OEM power supply components
Eugene, Oregon (where I got my kit)
503-461-1136

Jameco Electronics misc OEM parts
Belmont, CA
415-592-8097

JDR Microdevices misc OEM parts
San Jose, CA
408-559-1200

MCM Electronics misc OEM parts
Centerville, OH
800-543-4330

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Kent Richards
ben...@cs.utexas.edu

[Joe Pillera]

There is a company that advertises in the back of MacWeek, that claims
to make _better_ (ie. more capacity) power supplies than the ones
shipped by Apple ::

Quadmation, Inc.
1120 Stewart Ct., Ste. L
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
1-800-733-7887 [orders only]
(408) 733-5557 [info]

Good luck,
--Joe
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