19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
4:11 p.m.
Hi folks,
It always pleases me to bring some new DEC stuff into Binary Dinosaurs, but
it's even better when it's in good condition and still working nicely :)
Oh, I don't knwo... A non-working machine gives you the pleasure of
tracing the fault :-)
Tonight I drove a grand total of 62 miles to
*edit* bollocks, while I was typing this the machine I was going to crow
about nuked the power to my house :)
Aaaaaanyhoo, it's a Professional 380 with RD52 and RX50 coupled to a nice
VR241 for display purposes, running P/OS 2.2. Or at least it was until the
power gave out. To be fair it hadn't been powered up for a few years so I
firstly, do you know if it's the CPU box or the monitor that's tripping
the mains?
And is it tripping the mains due to excessive current (posibly due to a
primary-side failure in the SMPSU -- good luck if that's in the VR241!),
or is it trupping it due to earth leakage (prossibly a defective mains
filter capaciotr)?
really should've taken it into work and started it
up on the 'doesn't matter
if it blows' mains but hey ho. No magic smoke so I wonder what's up with
it.....
How many tims do I have to repeat 'Never switch on a classic computer
without doing some PSU tests first' ?
-tony