Hope it is ok to hijack this thread for this interesting unit:
If it would be only that, I would be happy...
Clear indication to turn it apart before turning it on - as I would not do that anyway
The sticker that states "does not turn on" probably has falling off somewhere...
After pulling out the transformer - which was an easy part as preowner did preliminary work already - the first check was resistance of all windings followed by checking voltages @242V~:
RD - BK | 6 | 121V~ |
RD/WH - BK/WH | 5.5 | 121V~ |
GY - GY | 0.35 | 11V~ |
YE - YE/WH - YE | 25 each | 157V~ each |
OG - OG/WH - OG | 2.7 each | 21.8V~ each |
BN - BN | 0.7 | 10.7V~ |
BU - BU/WH | 2.2 | 42V~ |
VT | High-Z | - |
Seems to be reasonable, but transformer drawing 580mA and 9.5W (real power) without any load might be a bit high.
After initial checks on all other boards and cleanup of the inside of the whole unit, the tranformer went back into it.
First only digital board was connected to see if unit powers up.
It did without any problem, everything nice and cool despite the LM323 Heatsink which gets rather hot - this seems to be ok.
The other boards were connected and unit came up without any issues - sorry, no magic smoke escaped for you
Power consumption is 58W and ~600mA @~230V when outputting 10V.
The fan consumes a whopping 18W @ 121V~, so rest of unit should be ~40W.
It came with a 1A fuse installed, but for 230V a 0.5A fuse should be used, which would not last long in this particular unit.
So current drawing from line might be a bit to high -
would be nice if someone could measure current @230V~/50Hz to compare.
First test of source part succeeded and gave reasonable values - just some digits of.
Have to test the measurement part and will give an update...
PS: Have taken pics from all boards top/bottom and details - so if there is interest, I can post them, but there are already a couple e.g.
Keitley 236 Source Meter - Teardown and Review.