For a little background, I had run the system for about 15 minutes, then it sat for a couple months while I removed the PVA from the display, then, when I tried to run the system again, the system started to boot and then the circuit breaker popped.

On 3/5/19 4:02 PM, Fred Cisin via cctech wrote:
The circuit breaker is there to reduce the chances that a problem turns into a disaster.

Although it IS possible to have a defective circuit breaker that is "false tripping", or thinking that it has an overload at normal amperages, that is unlikely.

I'm afraid that it is time to start by checking for shorts to ground, etc., without continuing to let it happen.  Starting with whatever the circuit breaker is trying to protect.



On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:

Yes, with the power supply disconnected from the mobo, it pops.

alan

On 3/5/19 3:43 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
If you disconnect the power supply from the motherboard, disks, etc, does it still pop? If so -> bad power supply. If not, reconnect one at a time and see if it is load based (eg each of them connected alone causes it). If it is purely load based, then it's a bad ps). If there's one thing that causes it to pop, there's an issue there. If it is the mobo, you might also try w/o the VR201 connected, since if that's pulling too much power, it can cause a PS overload (though I've never had this issue, I've read about it years ago).

Warner

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:56 PM Alan Perry <ape...@snowmoose.com <mailto:ape...@snowmoose.com>> wrote:

    OK, got back to this ...

    Plugged in the Rainbow 100. Flipped the power switch. No LEDs lit.

    There is a white circuit breaker on the power supply. When I
    switch on the power, it pops out. I switch off the power, reset
    the breaker, switch on the power and it pops out again.

    alan


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