RE: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-10-01 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: Maciej W. Rozycki [mailto:ma...@linux-mips.org] > Sent: 01 October 2017 20:28 > To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; Rob Jarratt ; General > Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Cc: 'shad' > Subject: RE: H7878 Fails Under Even M

RE: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-10-01 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > Just to let everyone know, I have now fixed this PSU. The final write up > is here: > > https://robs-old-computers.com/2017/10/01/decstation-5000-model-240-psu-fixed/ > > Thanks everyone for all the help. Great, congrats! I see many failed

RE: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-10-01 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
Just to let everyone know, I have now fixed this PSU. The final write up is here: https://robs-old-computers.com/2017/10/01/decstation-5000-model-240-psu-fixed/ Thanks everyone for all the help. Now back to the DECstation 220, a ZX Spectrum, and then the daunting task of fixing the TURBOchanne

RE: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-09-18 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
mber 2017 18:42 > To: cct...@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load > > hello, > well it's difficult without the piece in hands to understand the circuit, and > without the schematic, but I could give a try. > > 1) > On a switching PSU, o

Re: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-09-18 Thread shadoooo via cctalk
hello, well it's difficult without the piece in hands to understand the circuit, and without the schematic, but I could give a try. 1) On a switching PSU, only one output is really stabilized, here it seems 5v. The other outputs are "unregulated", but in some way related to the stabilized one, for

RE: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-09-17 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > Many thanks for all the suggestions. I will go through them all, although it > may take me a while > > On your last point, at first I thought that there isn't any feedback from > the machine. However, apart from a DC OK (which will be an ou

RE: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-09-17 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
ts > Subject: Re: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load > > > > > Can anyone explain the behaviour? > > > > It's hard to know what to do from a distance but here's what I think I'd look at if > I was faced with this problem. > > I think failing un

Re: H7878 Fails Under Even Moderate Load

2017-09-17 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > Can anyone explain the behaviour? > It's hard to know what to do from a distance but here's what I think I'd look at if I was faced with this problem. I think failing under moderate load could be explained by one or more of the following possibilities and probably others I haven't thought of: