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Anyone know what PCB this is?
VK3DRB:
Hi.
I have been asked to debug a 10 year-old laser machine. Fortunately there is a second machine and I have proven the fault to be in the industrial PCB CPU motherboard. Apparently as of six years ago, the board is no longer available from the laser manufacturer and there is no support.
Prior to debugging it further, I would like to know if anyone knows what this board is - who the original manufacturer is; or get even a schematic diagram; or know if someone has a spare anywhere.
Unfortunately, this board is a nightmare to access when installed inside its case with all the other unique electronics, so I can see myself spending days or weeks if I have to debug it to component level (soldering wires, scoping, rinse and repeat...)
Happy to spend big $ for a replacement of the same type.
andy3055:
The label 0030D606DC4 did not come up There must be another label that has the FCC ID. Do a search for it on: https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid
mikeselectricstuff:
Looks like an off-the-shelf industrial PC, surprising no maker name on it though. - a little unusual in that it appears to have both PCI and PC104 - that alone might give you a start looking at industrial PC suppliers ( unfortunately there seem to be a ridiculous number of these).
Long shot but maybe try Google reverse image search.
Any clues as to maker name in the bios messages etc.? Or maybe drivers on the CF card.
I wonder how specific it needs to be - if it is a bog-standard PC board an not something customised, I doubt it would be hard to find another industrial PC with comparable spec, interfaces etc.
I assume you've already tried copying the CF card from the working unit?
mikeselectricstuff:
That label looks like a MAC address. Searching on that here
https://macvendors.com/
leads to
https://www.msc-technologies.eu/home.html
Looks promising...
Medved:
I think there was an embedded PC standard using this card format and a PCI bus at the backbone, so there should have been be many more manufacturers of (more-less) interchangeable boards.
But the flash-disk for the OS and SW often is on the CPU board, so you may have hard time porting it to other model, unless you have the installation package available (bootable CDROM,...)...
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