6 Jul
2005
6 Jul
'05
11:55 p.m.
Joe wrote...
Have you tried single-stepping the program from the frontpanel?
Be warned, though, that I had a particularly nasty fault on my 11/45. It
would mess up branch instructions (and some others IIRC) but when I
single-stepped it at the microcode level (I have a KM11 card), it all
seemed fine. It turned out to be a chip that was 'going slow'....
Are you sure that the lights aren't blinking
too fast to see? Perhaps you
can hang a logic probe (with a pulse extender) on one of the lights to be
sure.
I'll try that tomorrow... but I wouldn't think that is what is happening.
Also, pardon my lack of knowledge, but...
shouldn't I be seeing the .2v
ripple as an AC component (ie. a sine wave)? It's a very clear perfect
sawtooth. And it's exactly the same on all the 5V regulators, which strikes
me as odd.
No, that sounds right. Even on a linear supply, the ripple is not
sinusoidal -- it's an almost-linear ramp down as the smoothing capacitor
discharges follwed by a little bit of a sinusoid as the capacitor is
recharged. On a switching regulator (which this is), the ripple is likely
to look even more like a sawtooth.
You might like to replace the output capacitors in your regulator bricks,
but I really don't think this is the problem.
-tony