From Kenny Balys Sent Fri, Mar 15th 2019, 15:17
From Kenny Balys Sent Fri, Mar 15th 2019, 15:17
Hmmm.... really good suggestion. Will do just that. On 15.03.19 15:15 , negativesaucer wrote: > I'd be tempted to check my mains with a meter and scope if I were blowing > through psu rectifiers > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 8:16 AM Kenny Balys <xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx > <mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>> wrote: > > > > In the past month I have had 3 pieces of equipment with bad > 1N400x diodes functioning as rectifiers in a power supply. > > In each case, the decoupling capacitors along side in said power > supply were beyond their limits. > > These were all late 1970s and early 1980s pieces of gear. > > Was there something wrong with late 70s early 80s 1N4000 series > diodes? > > Starting to think I should just change these out whenever I > recap a power supply from that era. >