23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
12:47 p.m.
I haven't been into a BA23 PSU, so this is a
question, not a
suggestion - does that PSU have a separate "jumper" plug for 50Hz/60Hz
switch?
SInce the first thing an SMPSU does with the mians is rectify and smooth
it, it's not going to care about the mains frequency. And no sane
manufactuer would ever design one where any auxilliarly supply (e.g. to
get the main SMPSU started) would care about the frequency either.
I toasted an RA60 once by just flipping the visible switch from 240V
to 110V, not knowing there was a separate physical setting to switch it
from 50Hz to 60Hz. The behavior as it burnt up was just like this.
Tje things that really care about mains frequency are ferroresonant PSUs
(sued, for example in the DEC RX01 and RX02 drives) and disk spindle
motors. I am very suprised an RA60 was damaged by having the frequency
set wrongly, any idea what parts actually failed?
-tony