4 Feb
2015
4 Feb
'15
7 p.m.
On 02/04/2015 12:43 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Hi,
Having gotten the 11/34 rig up to a good spec, I'm sufficiently excited
to tackle the 11/45. It's been powered off since 2004, when I briefly
turned it on only to find a wild jumble of lights and that none of the
front panel switches or knobs did anything to the lights. Couldn't get it
to run or deposit values or *anything*. I therefore assumed it was badly
broken and so left it until now. It has stayed perfectly high and dry but
has gone to extremes in temperature as the storage isn't climate controlled
(this is in western Pennsylvania). And there's a lot of dust.
The 11/45 has a row of little step-down regulator modules,
all plugged in with
those horrible AMP Mate-n-Lock connectors. We often had bad
contacts on
those and they would sometimes burn the connector housings
or char the
ends of the wires. That was all about 1980, I can't imagine
they've improved
with age. I think you may have more trouble with these than
anything else
in the machine.
You will probably also have problems with all the fans. I
replaced the lights in
our console with LEDs.
As for a dead console, if the ACOK signal is indicating "not
ok" then the console
probably will be frozen.
Jon