Hi Jochen, I'm assuming that your X & Y are swapped? i.e. voltage is
normally on the vertical (Y) :)
I'm going through a similar learning experience with my MINC-11 at the
moment. What is your scope probe ground connected to? AFAIK it should be
on signal ground, i.e. the 0V that's associated with the 5V & 12V lines.
Actually SMPSUs are quite simple, especially from this vintage. The
trickier parts are the voltage overload and voltage good detection
circuits in my experience. I'm sure others here will come back with good
advice on what to check but working your way methodically through the
stages of the PSU isn't that hard - just be careful and remember to
allow those large caps to fully discharge before touching anything!
Cheers,
James
On 26/07/2011 23:33, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Hi.
I try to get my "new" PDP-11/34a back to live. I did a quick PSU test
today with dummy loads. All voltages, LTCL, DCLO and ACLO where OK so I
pluged in the logic boards. But the machine does not respond to the
knobs on the programmers console. Pressing HLT + CNTRL brings the
machine not to halt, but the "Bus Error" LED of the console lights up.
Grant continuity cards and NPR jumpers are in place.
It looks like I have the wrong bus terminator: There is a M9301-YF at
the CPU side and a M930 at the other bus end. It seems I need a M9302
in place of the M930? This would explain the bus error.
I took my scope to have a look at the ripple of the voltages.
Here is what I got on the second +5 V PSU:
X = 0.2 V / div ; Y = 2 ms / div
http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/tmp/5_Volt_Ripple__y=0.2V__x=2ms.jpg
X = 0.2 V / div ; Y = 10 us / div
http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/tmp/5_Volt_Ripple__y=0.2V__x=10us.jpg
I get similar pictures on all voltages. Both +5 V power bricks (H7441)
show similar ripple as well as +15 V and -15 V.
There are spikes with up to 1.2 Vpp and it is clearly related to the
50 Hz lines frequency. This doesn't look that healthy. I had a look at
the BA11-K power distribution schematic. The two +5 V PSUs are
independent and run of different windings of the mains transformer.
I am a bit surprised to see about the same fault on all PSUs. I am no
SM-PSU expert, so I am now at the point where I have to ask for advice.