[bradley1993]

Hello
I got a joblot of consoles and had a slim plugged her in and I had the screen saying no hd so went to grab my spare and the ps3 blew up from the plug loud bang and some smoke ? Turned the system off and tried again same thing hanppened blew up before I could even turn it on (wad hiding behind the fuse box) haha

Anyone have any ideas why this happened or how to fix it , I think the PSU is probably buggered?

Any help or ideas will be great
THANKS!

[3absiso]

@Mr.Dutch will be more welling to help here,
but open it and investigate the PSU, probably the PSU is shorting

[playerkp420]

What region is the PS3?

What region are you in?

Maybe plugged 220v into a 120v PS3?

[3absiso]

Originally Posted by playerkp420 What region is the PS3? What region are you in? Maybe plugged 220v into a 120v PS3?

Since you are on the USA, you deals only with 120V.
but, a lot of people here brings a USA PS3 to our region as a gift for their relatives and here the Voltage is 220 Volt.
but all the PS3 even from the USA can handle the 220 volt. the PSU is universal @playerkp420 .
See This

[Mr.Dutch]

Originally Posted by bradley1993 I think the PSU is probably buggered?

i think so too, a loud bang can only happen on the unsafe side of the psu (120-230V)
i think the psu is protected against shorts on the 12V side.

if you open up the psu you will probably see a burn mark somewhere.

[Wolfie708]

Originally Posted by 3absiso Since you are on the USA, you deals only with 120V. but, a lot of people here brings a USA PS3 to our region as a gift for their relatives and here the Voltage is 220 Volt. but all the PS3 even from the USA can handle the 220 volt. the PSU is universal @playerkp420 . See This

As he said lol

If it's taking out the power circuit MCB/Fuse though, it sounds like it a fault on supply side of PSU. Add to that the fact it is going with a bang, not a pop lol, and I'd say your PSU is fubar'd and has a direct short on it rather than anything else.

Possibly fixable, but personally, I'd get a new PSU for it

[General Plot]

I concur. When I moved to England from New York, I brought alot of electronics with me (PSP, slim PS2, PS3, Sega CDX, my PC, a monitor, a NiMH battery charger, etc...) and all of them have been perfectly fine at automatically adjusting to 220v/50hz from 120v/60hz. The only consumer electronics you'll find these days that don't switch over are things like toasters, coffee pots (rudimentary electronics that have a heating element for example). Anything with an inverter/converter/ will do just fine just about anywhere in the world.

[bradley1993]

Sorry for late reply been superbusy with work!
Anyway , I'm in Australia not America , I got a brand new plug and new PSU I don't know what the problem is
Anyone have any more ideas ? If not il sell or keep for spares

Cheers people !