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my a100 nearly went on fire !!!!!

2003-03-13 by neilwight

working in my studio today when i heard a strange hiss which then 
became really loud and was followed by a lot of smoke from the back 
of my a100.
ran over and switched off the power and dragged it out of the room 
leaving a trail of extremely acrid smoke behind me thats still there 
over 2 hours later. yuck.
opened up the unit outside to find that the inside of the 
transformer (the part that the plug goes into and that the on/off 
switch is connected to. not the power board) had melted. there was a 
small puddle of brown liquid on the inside which was a pain to clean 
off.
anyways. unit still works thankfully but not too keen to run it 
until i replace the part.
has anyone else encountered this?
it had only been on for 4 hours, it should be able to handle this 
shouldnt it?
its a bit of a worry as i have quite a big studio and was nearly 
gonna break for tea. 10 minutes later and ive have been in the other 
room and then who knows what could have happened. fire fire fire.

its also running from its own outlet. no blown fuses etc.
where can i get a replacement from. anyone got any ideas etc for me.

thanks, neil

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