Re: TECH: Tempest +5v line

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From: "Roger Smith" <whooshdoo@hotmail.com>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:02:52 -0500
Subject: VECTOR: TECH: Tempest +5v line

>
> On my non-working Tempest UR there is 5.77v at J7 on the A/R II board and
> 5.62v at the edge connector of the main board. Is this ok?
>
> Rog
>

you should replace the edge connectors and "lock" the AR2 to disable it's feedback circuit before doing anything else.

otherwise you could end up with burned pcb's and a lot of dead chips eventually.
you are allready getting voltdrop from the edge connector and it's going to get worse.

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Received on Sun Jun 6 12:29:11 2004