I have a DEC TS05 (re-badged F880 without high-density mode; otherwise same PCB and
everything) which is poorly behaved. Before I go diving in with the maintenance manual,
is there anyone on here with experience repairing F880s?
Symptoms:
- It occasionally just resets (especially once it gets warmer). I'm willing to bet
this is a flaky regulator somewhere, but I don't have a digital scope to see the
transients very well.
- When loading (and occasionally during operation, if it ever gets that far), it bugs out
with either a compliance arm or tachometer error. Both of the superficial diagnostics for
the compliance arm and the tachometer indicate no problems, so I'm assuming it's a
problem somewhere in the logic. It only successfully loads maybe one time out of 20, even
when I load it pre-threaded (1 out of 3 when it's cold, but it doesn't stay that
way for long), which makes the first problem all the more irritating.
- Dave