16 May
2008
16 May
'08
2:04 a.m.
On Thursday 15 May 2008 19:48, Ade Vickers wrote:
OK, that would make sense. In which case, I'd expect the differential
between pins 3 & 4 to be approx 5v, but will confirm tomorrow.
Ok.
Ok...
Should I probe these with reference to the GND (Earth/shield) or the 0v
line (pin 3, as above)?
I'd find a convenient ground point. Beside the ones on the power supply there
are no doubt others on the mainboard and at least one on that edge connector.
They look brand new TBH. Not even any dust on them (probably because the
PSU is mounted component-side-down in the case). That, and the case itself
is pretty tightly sealed when the unit is assembled & closed up.
A bit of a contrast to my Exec, which has a fan in it, that I replaced with
a slightly stronger (AC) one. :-) That was a retrofit done by several O-1
owners that I know of that wanted cooler and more reliable operation. All
you need to do is replace the bit under the handle with one that has the fan
opening, at least on the gray case.
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Roy J. Tellason wrote :
I'd have kept it for spare parts, at least -- inside they're basically the
same...
Hm, could be I'm mis-remembering slightly
here. Or it could
be used in later stuff. I recall seeing only one or two of
the tan case units, most of them were the later ones.
I sold my non-tan cased Ozzie, on the basis it wasn't rare enough for my
liking! Of course, that one worked perfectly... Measured with respect to Earth (green wire, goes
everywhere
including to the mainboard). As far as I can tell, this acts as GND for
the whole machine?
Shielding more than anything else, I'd guess. Even still,
it shouldn't be fluctuating either.
My mistake - there was no fluctuation, except in the optics of the sensor
(me & my eyes). The voltage output was a perfectly flat line (except when
the 'scope sensitivity was turned to 20mv/cm, at which point I could just
about see some rectification effects - but getting the 'scope to trigger on
the peaks was really hard work; it's a pretty flat line.
The signal on Pin 3 (-0.1v I guessed at) was a little noiser, but seemed to
be random noise. Having said that, I didn't "zoom in" on it so much.
If, as you imply, Pin 3 is GND and Pin 4 is +5v; then the difference
between those two is much closer to 5v than between Pin 4 & Earth. Your assistance is much appreciated. I've still
got to try Tony's
suggestion of checking out the H-sync signal, but I need to
find it first...
It'll be on that connector on the front, and prety obvious
which one it is because of the repetition rate, as opposed
to the much lower rate for the vertical sync, and the much
erratic nature of the video. And if it's *way* off in
frequency or changes a lot or has a lot of jitter than we're
probably looking at the power supply not being right. I shall consider it - is there any (non-destructive: I
know you can
pump 240vac into it, then when the magic smoke escapes
conclude it's broken :)) way to test an electrolytic cap?
With some equipment, yeah. The least I'd want is to use an
isolation transformer to plug the computer into and then
scope across the main filter caps and see what you get, but
I wouldn't care to mess around in there without an isolation
transformer.
If they're bulgy on top they're bad.