BRIAN LIFE AND TECH

Hi, its has been 3 years that my acer aspire idea 500 power supply broken (not working). since the replacement power supply is difficult to find in here (Malaysia), I have to modified the supply cable on the connector to match my aspire idea power supply (PS). old bulky PS aspire idea with old PS which sits outside my media center  the original replacement is about £50 now at UK..While, here in my home country, no chance to find it. so, I have to find alternative way to make my idea 500 working.  one way was to use old power supply (twice the size of its original PS) and rearrange it cables to PS connector to suit the idea 500 supply. That was done (and working) 3 years ago. these pins used for removing the cable from old PS connector for rearrangement Recently, I managed to get some courage to open my dusty aspire idea 500 original PS casing to find out the source of the problem. 120W original aspire idea 500 PS model FSP120-40GLS  ...

hi, this is our classic Brother electric sewing machine. it is very old. But, still works fine. Model is similar to 681B-UG brother sewing machine model 681B-UG Unfortunately, for the past few weeks, there are little problem with the foot pedal which caused slight leakage current when operate the machine. was not sure where the problem coming from. but, I try to investigate using my little knowledge about this kind of thing. At first, I am looking at the basic things like connection inside the main plug, cable that connect from main plug to the machine, whether any damage have been occur or not to its insulation/disconnect etc. However, nothing have been found So, I start to disconnect the cable that connect to the motor and light via white connector to identify the problem..what I found is one of the ground cable are damaged. This caused disconnect between Earth cable from main plug and the machine body. Foot pedal ydk yc-180 after realised that issue and fix...