I had a problem with brick power supplies a number of years back. I found an issue that
caused them to fail. I had about ten of them on the same power switch. You'd think
this would not be an issue but it is.
You see it works like this, each one had a transformer in it. When you disconnect the
power, with a switch, each of the transformers often has energy left in the cores.
Normally for just one supply, this isn't an issue. When you have a bunch of these,
only one supply absorbs all of the energy. When it does, it will blow some part of that
supply up. On the ones I had, it'd take of the negative rail.
I put a MOV on the power rail and didn't have any more issues with power cycling.
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Bill Degnan via cctalk
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:07:22 PM
To: p.gebhardt at
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Subject: Re: Looking for two DEC H445 power bricks for PDP 11/40 project
here is a photo of some of the failed regulators I have on hand that I have
pulled from production over the years:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DML8O8dW0AISX5m.jpg
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:05 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
H745's are harder to find. I have at least one
that needs service but I
am located in the USA and I have no clear idea what's wrong with it. Is it
that you have zero h745's at all or you have a bad one? Is there a typical
point of failure for these? If so, I'd try to track down a bad one and fix
it. Probably a lot cheaper.
b
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:54 PM P Gebhardt via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello Noel,
thanks for your quick reply. There are indeed some DEC power brick models
on epay, but none regarding the H745.
All the best,
Pierre
From: Pierre Gebhardt
two H745 bricks (delivering -15V) which are still
missing. I'd be
very
happy, if anybody could consider parting with one
or two. Location
is
in Germany.
There should be some on eBait; mildly expensive, but if you get them from
the US, the shipping is going to be a fair amount anyway...
Noel