18 Apr
2023
18 Apr
'23
8:40 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:51 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
The blown out resistor likely has "blown out" for a reason.
The replacement will probably suffer the same faith unless you find the
root cause.
As soon as I saw 'Boschert' mental alarm bells triggered....
Boschert made a particularly unfriendly (to the repairer) type of
SMPSU which I call the '2 stage'. I can explain how it works if
necessary, but be warned that with one of those if a particular power
transistor fails (and it often does), it takes out a couple of other
power transistors, the current sense resistor, numerous small
transistors, the regulator chip, the fuse and sometime PCB tracks.
They're not all like that, but I will agree that a burnt-out resistor
in an SMPSU nearly always means other components have failed.
It's likely the same PSU was used in other devices, you might want to
look through all the service manuals you can find to see if it turns
up. Can you make a photo of the PSU available somewhere in case
somebody recognises it.
-tony
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:20 AM John Robertson via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I've checked bitsavers.org (Al does a great job!), and a number of
> forums, but no luck finding schematics for my ADM31 that I am trying to
> resurrect. The power supply has issues and I need to identify a blown
> out resistor - the switching supply is a Boschert model 1001 date code
> 7943 Revision J.
>
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