I took the IRIS over to Ray's to see if we could get it working and pull anything of
interest off the drives, and the power supply died. If you have one of the Motorola IRISes
be sure that you check out two paper caps (C7 is one of them) on the 5v rail board (on the
fan side of the P/S). Had a failure in one or both that caused a (hypothesized) spike to
the rectifier bridge and smoked a MOV/resistor link to ground. Fortunately there
doesn't seem to be any logic damage, but watch out if you've got one of these!
Later research with an electronics book revealed that paper & electrolytic are the
most failure-prone of the capacitors. I'm going to replace with mylar (I know
they're not original, Tony, but it's a terrible job to get that P/S out, and I
don't want anything to die the next time).
Scott Quinn
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