[sdiy] Need help reading a schematic

Ben Stuyts ben at stuyts.nl
Thu Aug 13 14:45:57 CEST 2020



> On 13 Aug 2020, at 09:43, Jean Bender <lofideadbeat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As 2 fuses always blow up if powered, i'm pretty sure the power
> transformer is dead, it's not a thoroidal one. I gonna try to get a
> 220V to 2 secondary 18V AC and see if it lett the pdd14 can go back to
> life ;).
> The regulators are LM7815, 7915 and 7805.
> The only thing i don't get yet is that two wires go from one
> secondary, the V+ one goes through a fuse and then directly to the
> pedal board jack. I guess i don't need it actually, as i don't have
> the pedalboard !

Something doesn’t add up. Are both those two fuses both on the secondary side? If so, what makes you assume the transformer is bad? Have you actually measured the output voltage of the transformer?

If anything, that would point to a problem further on.

Ben





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