Hello,
the PSU's of the 9845 are always a pain.
Esp. for the 9845s produced in Germany once, at first all capacitors
Argh! I think my 9845 is a German one....
have to been checked before applying power. Several of
them are of an
epoxy based package and like to produce a failure of the PSU (I killed
Which capacitors are these? Are you thinking of the snubber networks on
the main chopper transformers -- the 2 large non-electrolytic caps on the
mainboard?
two PSUs up to now and I'm not daring to power on
the third).
>> I checked the HP 9845B and it's absolutely dead. The fan doesn't even
>>run. However the fault should be easy enough to locate. It's odd though,
>>
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>Be warned that thr 9845 PSU is _very_ complicated, even worse than the
>PDP11/44 PSU (!).
Perhaps I should clarify that although it's complicated, it's not too
unfriendly to work on.
The little PCB at the front contains the 4 chopper transistors (2
push-pull chopper circuits). These, of course, are on the mains side of
the PSU, but the little pot-core transformers on this board isolate the
base drive signals. Therefore the 4 chopper drive transistors (on one of
the output PCBs) and the entire control circuit (on the complicated PCB
at the back) are isolated from the mains.
Moreover, there's a nice, simple, linear startup supply for the control
circuit.
So checking waveforms and debugging the most complicated part of the
supply shouldn't be too unpleasant.
As you
seem to know the PSU quite well, do you have schematics?
Only reverse-engineered ones. THese will end up on a later version of the
HPCC CD-ROM, after I've figured out the rest of the machine...
-tony