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My laser is Laser 1 on 2, don't remember. I took it apart and it take 
some searching for th heater element leads, but it my case it runs 
from left to right, inside theheating drum. All other leads are for 
temp regulation. I was curious to see if the fuser heats up and 
decided to apply a 26V AC just because that was the transformer I had 
at the time. I touche a thermometer probe to thedrum and connected 
the 26V- the temp slowly, very slowly started to ramp up. That was 
encouraging to me, it proved the fuser was operational. For some 
eason the resistance I got was exceptionally low, 4 ohms or so. 

My next question si: can I use a regular dimemr to adjust the 
temperature?

Mike


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> wrote:
> 
> Those are interesting posts. Then using one of those dimmer 
switches 
> would lower the voltage to test it, right?  Mike
> 
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > I  have a laserjet fuser and an curious if voltages used for the 
> > heating element are fairly similar. I traced from the circuit and 
> it 
> > appears that it is a 120V AC. Is this what you have in your 
fusers? 
> > 
> > And if so then for the test purposes have you tried to apply that 
> > voltage to the fuser?  Mike