New DEC museum entry :D

THat's an odd fault. It's repeatable, yes? In other words you turn it on, it runs for 5 minutes, then trips the mains. You cna then power it down, power it up again and it'll run for another 5 minutes... THe mians filter caps would be plasting or metalised paper types. I've had them fail before, but normally they just go 'bang', emit magic smoke and maybe blow the fuse. The Pros (and the 'Bow, and Decmate II) are all designed to come into modules without tools. But be warned that setting up the machine out of the case in order to do tests is often non-trivial (I rememebr, bitterly, the 'bow PSU balanased upside-down alongside the mainboard, etc, when I was tracing a memory cotnrol fault in that machine). Also, there's at least one tamperproof Torx screw in the PSU.... -tony