26 Feb
2007
26 Feb
'07
3:33 p.m.
On 26/2/07 22:50, "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Surely for the amount of times the machine will be running for any length of
time a mains filter won't be THAT necessary? I'm not thinking of running the
Pro for weeks at a time.
It does, and
it did. Today I crimped some spades onto an IEC cable, strapped
the earth to the PSU case and it ran happily all afternoon. As luck would
have it I found a mains receptacle in the spares bins that also had spades
as outputs so the can is out and the new receptacle is in. With a sheet
metal plate as a cover over the remaining hole it's business as usual :) You
can't tell it's new stuff.
I would strongly recoemnd adding some mains filtering. You can buy mains
filters from places like RS and Farnell (they are not cheap, though!).
It's pretty obvious how to link one up.. Has anyone ever tried to open up one of these filter
modules? Most of the
ones I've seen seem to have the cases soldered closed, so they could be
taken apart, but are the compoents potted inside?
This one's soldered shut so I'll probably take a saw to it just to see if it
can be rebuilt. Looks like I've just been dumped by my partner of 9 years so
I would appear to have some spare time on my hands.
Aaanyhoo......
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