got used polysix and power supply is acting weird
2005-10-02 by lnz2166
Hello PS6ers. Just got one of these babys which looks great with my Sigma. I bought this thing knowing it didn't work hoping it was a battery problem but I found out the the rectifier diodes on the power supply were shot. After replacing them and all of the lytics,I got LEDs to light up and +5v and +15v were present but no -15v and -5v. After further investgation, I found that by unplugging the boards both negative voltages appeared. My thought was "dead short on one of the boards". I did a primitive "put the ohm meter across each plug contact to ground" to see if a dead short would stare me a the face but that wasn't the case. I then loaded a few different resistors across the power supply -15v terminals with all of the boards unplugged to find out that if can reproduce the problem. The voltage was stable until I went down to 100 ohms and then I noticed the voltage drop immediately. I then put the 100ohm resistor across the + voltages to see if I could get those voltages to drop but they stayed stable. My first thought was that one of the regulators/transistors is weak or bad so I was able to find replacements and got them on order. This is a stab in the dark so I'm asking for some of your thoughts/advise. Replacing the regulators/transistors/ and the 2 ICs will not hurt. But I'm not totally convinced that this is the whole problem. I noticed that some of the power supply circuits have been changed once before therefore some phenomina is happening or the guy who had this before had some bad luck with line voltages. Hope to hear from you experts and thanks to reading this email.