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660av deadPSU
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-10-16 15:29:08
I recently acquired 660av and 6100/60. Both have dead PSU. I bought a working one and I was able to boot both machine. My question is can we easily rapair these? My knowledge on psu is just recapping.
Posted by: joshc on 2023-10-17 01:56:17
Everything is repairable, given enough effort and expense given to it. In general these are fairly reliable but obviously not in your case - maybe they're just getting to that age where they are going to start failing now. There were a few different PSUs used in these machines, all the same formfactor but some are Delta, some are TDK and I think some are Dyna Comp or Astec, so there's isn't a single answer to 'How to repair it' - it will depend on the PSU.

Have you got a model number / picture of the label and some pics of inside it to hand?
Posted by: dalek on 2023-10-17 05:10:13
I recently recapped mine (Dyna) and it came back to life. Worth a shot anyway.
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-10-17 09:59:30
Here it is.
Posted by: Forrest on 2023-10-17 10:43:37
Next to R66 there’s a 6 pin IC with a hole in the middle of the chip - not good.
Posted by: joshc on 2023-10-17 11:23:39
Next to R66 there’s a 6 pin IC with a hole in the middle of the chip - not good.
Looks like a dot from a marker pen rather than a hole?
Posted by: crazyben on 2023-10-17 12:18:24
Looks like a dot from a marker pen rather than a hole?
Yes you are correct it is a dot.
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