I liberated a plasma display ps/2 p70 from a friends garage- It
does the typical power supply thing where it comes up for a bit, and then
konks out. I took it out of the machine, and have pretty much made sure
the power supply is broken- I have tried loading the DC outputs with my
bench load IDE drive, and it comes up and goes down again, unless it is
expecting a load on the plasma screen power connector. I am a power supply
newby. The supply only turns on long enough to get the fan to go about 1/2
rotation, and the dies again.
This gets kind of tricky because I have never managed to fix a
power supply, ever, I usually just find a spare from the bin and pop it
in. However, I don't have a spare that will do whatever voltages the
plasma display requires, nor do I have a supply that is even close to this
form factor.
It appears from my probing that at least the filter caps are good-
I am getting a pretty stable ~160 volts DC across two separate large
filter caps, which seems a bit big, but I have not learned enough
analog to have a clue how this supply does what it does.
Thanks for any assistance,
Greg Linder