Varning! cold cathodes ps2 meltdown!

For a fue days ago i switched off my ps2 then got to bed. the day after when trying to start it, it just made a buzzing sound then nothing...
so i checked the voltage transformator for the cold cathode and the electrolyts have leeked and were brown and shit...

Then looking at the cathode it had melted (yes it's true) in booth ends!
So i sugest that if you do have a cold cathode in your ps2 check it sometimes.
It's quite cheap japanese elektronics in that blue box that probebly caused this ps2 meltdown. :)

I got it running again just by unsoldering the voltage converter and cathode.

Wow, you're lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it) that you didn't melt down your whole ps2. Glad everything is ok though.

i just glad the a fire didnt start. and ever more lucky my ps2 is ok.
You can always build a new house, but newer mod your ps2 the exact way :D

is that you in your advatar picture? anyways, ya i have herd cathode sucks i will never go that way leds are much brighter, cheaper, and dont melt or burn.

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Originally Posted by weeman666

is that you in your advatar picture?

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yes, why do you ask?

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Originally Posted by retro

yes, why do you ask?

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barly anyone uses their own pic fur an avatar... if it is a pic.. its a naked women..

I've had a blue Cold Cathode in my PS2 for 2 years now... And it's fine... It may also be the fact the inverter is close to the fan, and cools off about as much as the CPU cools off. Keep the inverter by the fan, and you're good. Also, it takes a ot of LED to do this... http://www.gamebeef.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=273

the same thing has happened to me twice. both times it was the transformer on the inverter that was burnt to hell and the plastic around the cathode tube was melted a bit on the ends. they didn't cause any problems though, except make it not light up a room now.