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PSU may be going bad

2013-04-04 by intrepidpete

Command Station PSU may be going bad. After running for a while, the display starts blinking like the backlight is going out and it keeps saying LoadingÂ…  I opened it up, then opened up the PSU cage, looking for "slightly burned" looking resistors and/or "bulging/leaking" capacitors, but could not find anything - visually it looks fine.

It is now running fine, but I don't want to leave it on for more than a few hours, just in case the issue is related to over-heating or something about it being left on for a long time. It is tricky because when I needed to work on my plasma TV, the bad capacitors were pretty obvious - slightly bulging on top. But with the CS, I don't see anything that needs to be replaced.

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