A BAD day for SWE1 - Tech help needed

I was in the basement, enjoying a nice game of Pinball 2000, when all of a
sudden...BLAMMO! All the lights went off, and a distinct smell of burnt
components fills the room.

See, apparently, in the basement, I can not tell when there's a severe
thunderstorm outside. Something hit very close. The power came back on, but
the SWE1 did not. I tried the power switch, and nothing. Dead. I checked all
the fuses with a meter (man there's alot of them!!) and they all are ok. I
thought the power supply may have gone bad, so I replaced that with a spare
I had. Still nothing. I replaced the CPU with a spare I had, and nothing. I
also switched the power cord with another I had and that produced no signs
of life either.

I discovered the burnt component smell was from the ran relays in our Lutron
Homeworks system. The ceiling fans did not work after the outage either, so
those were done. I replaced these components and the lighting system is good
to go now (not that anyone cares, just a side note) but the SWE1 is still
DOA.

Any ideas on what else I could try? I did verify that the outlet the machine
is plugged into is functional, which it is.

Please e-mail me at wmspins@xxxxxxxxxxx if you have any ideas. FWIW, the
Black Knight machine I had plugged into the same outlet seems to be fine, or
at least no worse then before the power went out.


Thanks in advance,

Chris


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