VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?

[Richard Loken]

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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