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Berni:
That is pretty neat looking inside. Is this bigger than you average analog scope? It looks like it from the front panel.
I do find it quite amusing how every electrolytic in the PSU is a different height.
bd139:
If you look carefully you will see that all the electrolytics have the same orientation as well.
Nice bit of kit :-+
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2018, 06:46:49 am ---If you look carefully you will see that all the electrolytics have the same orientation as well.
Nice bit of kit :-+
--- End quote ---
Yes, the more I look at this the more attention to detail it has been given jumps out at me. Two things however concern me, besides the need for expansion connections to be able to work on the boards live, 1st is it does get really warm and 2nd, because of the orientation of the caps I can't see what make they are.
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
bd139:
Getting warm is not really a problem. Anything from this era kicks off the heat well.
Small silver ones are Vishay/BC components electrolytics. Big ones look like Nippon Chemi-con or Nichicons or Panasonics. Hard to tell.
The small ones are complete bastards. They have no vents and tend to explode violently. Fortunately I've never seen one actually explode other than when I did it on purpose. Nor have I seen one leak.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 14, 2018, 07:51:17 am ---... because of the orientation of the caps I can't see what make they are.
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Nippon Chemi-con. The oval negative markers and the little horizontal rectangles (actually supposed to be the Nippon Chemi-con shield I believe) are diagnostic. Once upon a time those would have been Philips (Mullard) branded.
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