A recycled power supply from an old computer

My house is full of ‘junk’. I pick up every device that I find at the street to give it a second chance. Wires, toys, computers and old machines start to pile up and I barely have more space for them… but at the end I reuse them all.

I took pieces from an old computer that didn’t work anymore and wanted to recycle its ATX to build a variable power supply or at least with outputs with different voltage to use it as the main piece for my electronic and robotic projects.

After two days working on it, I could finish it and seemed to work. I plugged it, and everything was ok, but after a while it started to fail. The power supply fan was stopping. I plugged it and unplugged it over and over but at some point it always kept stopping.

Then I checked it without the appropriate caution, since I’m used to work with 9V batteries for all my machines, so I forgot to unplug it… and I got an electrical shock of 3A approx. The power supply was sticked to my hands until the fuse had blown, and then the ATX fell down from the table and got burned.

I’m still paying the price for it. It has been now more than a year with a huge back pain, something that really influenced the album since I couldn’t sit longer to work on it.

It won’t happen again…