27 Nov
2015
27 Nov
'15
8:48 a.m.
On 11/26/2015 11:13 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I can only say that they fail often. We have replaced
lots in
our 11/70. Luckily we have had spares.
Sometimes the failure has been rather catastrofic with blown
components. I think these modules run quite hot since
discoloured pcb:s are common.
My experience with an 11/45 that ran 24/7 was the AMP
Mate-n-Lok connectors would get a poor contact, heat up and
go into thermal runaway, melting the plastic housing and
totally frying the contacts. I had to repair these at least
5 times while we had that machine. I never actually had a
regulator itself go bad, it was always the contacts. Maybe
we just got lucky. (This was also about 1977 - 1980, so
parts have probably deteriorated a lot more since then.)
Jon