I have a piece of industrial equipment (engine diagnostics) that runs the OS9 operating system on a bespoke Bosch motherboard. It has the old style AT switchuing power supply, and it's died. I am told I cannot use an adapted ATX supply as the switch on of another Windows based PC in the machine is reliant on the power supply in the bespoke OS9 PC being an AT type....
So, I need to either repair the AT supply, of find another one. I removed all electrolytics, one by one, and they tested OK. I then removed all semiconductors except diodes that would test in circuit. Again, they all checked out OK. I see 320V DC on across the series connected input filter caps. No noises, zero output on 12 and 5 V rails. I do not believe it's oscillating and turning on.
I am trying to get my head around how the damned thing initially fires up. It must have some means of getting the oscillator going until such time as it's generating output voltage, surely? Until then how can the low voltage circuits function? I have found a fairly similar looking circuit, although I do not have a schematic for this particular one of mine, which is an Enermax E201-PV. Hopefully the schematic is attached below. I am pretty new to reading something like a SMPS schematic, in the past if one failed I binned it! But I think start up must be something to do with the 47uF cap at C16, but I am clutching at straws here
I have reasonably comprehensive test gear, can anyone suggest how to see if the start up circuit is functioning? I am aware of the potential to damage myself with 320V DC stored energy, and I believe I understand about ground leads on my scope and the mains input side being a no no. But please treat me as village idiot when replying