VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?
Richard Loken
richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca
Fri Dec 11 10:45:16 CST 2015
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 12/10/2015 04:30 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>> My VAX4000-500 will no longer power up, with the PSU starting up and then
...
> Most likely there is a failed capacitor somewhere. Look
...
My doctor once said to me that all problems in the head involve teeth and I
can safely make a similar exageration:
All electronic failures involve capacitors
And this becomes (most repulsively) even more true when switch mode power
supplies are involved. Keeping that in mind will usually help with
diagnosis.
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