19 Feb
2002
19 Feb
'02
6:22 p.m.
At 02:56 PM 2/19/02 -0800, you wrote:
Right... I know it's trivial, but I guess that
VR201s are so unloved
for any other purpose than I've always gotten them with my beige DEC
boxes (DECMates, 'Bows, Pros, etc.). Except for the one I knocked off
the table (ow!) I've never had one die (now I have a spare analog board)
The Horiz Linearity coil and 2 resistors are prone to bad solder joints and
there are 2 resistors that pop when the solder joint fails on the linearity
coil. I've fixed many a supposed "dead" vr201 by resoldering the coil and
replacing the resistors.... unfortunately the last 201's that I had had
burnt up the curcuitboard under the resistors from them overheating :(