16 Sep
2004
16 Sep
'04
8:52 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I am suprised at you! The 'AC power supply' is
really simple inside,
there are no custom parts (in fact the only 'chips' are optoisolated).
There are about 10 discrete transistors on the protection board, that's all.
In other words, this is something you darn well should be repairing, not
replacing.
Yeah, I know, and I felt stupid about sending the dead one back for
someone else to repair and send to some other SX engine user. But I
was (and am) up to my fundament in other alligators, I needed for the
printer to work soonish, and while I can solder, I understand analog
electronics something like you understand C, only less well. If I'd
left it for me to do it still wouldn't be done, and so changing it to
a "depot repair" sort of problem worked really well for me.
-Frank McConnell