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Re: [elektron] Re: Broken SID

2005-03-09 by Don't t(h)read on my tentacles, Earthlin

Le 09 mars 2005, à 02:06, Mark Rivera a écrit :

> Depends on what they mean by 'regulator'.. There are chips called
> 'voltage regulators' that take in DC power (like 9V or so) and turn it
> into something clean and usable by the surrounding hardware -- like 5V.
> If that's all it is, the part is cheap.

Ditto

> What actually happened? Did it turn on and work for a while and then
> shut off? Did it never turn on at all? etc... What kind of adapter did
> you plug into it? Was is DC or AC, what voltage? And what is the 
> voltage
> of the SID's standard adapter?

Ditto

I may add, beside the regulator, other parts may be burned like caps. 
Anyway, save if something expensive is carbonized (ICs, the CMOS SID) 
it's more a time consuming fault tracking job/desolder/resolder.

Denis =G)

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