[vcf-midatlantic] Repairs to a Heath WH19 Terminal

Jason Perkins perkins.jason at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 12:10:30 EDT 2017


Man what a small world... My other big not-work time investment is TDIClub,
looks like the OP of that article is into TDIs a bit as well!

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Neil Cherry <ncherry at linuxha.com> wrote:

> On 03/12/2017 11:25 PM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>
>> You were right, the big .22 600v cap C232 was shorted. I've placed an
>> order
>> from DigiKey, hopefully the impending snow doesn't delay things too badly.
>>
>> -J
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 6:55 PM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:43:22PM -0400, Jason Perkins via
>>> vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There aren't many things on that ground return from the flyback, I'll
>>>>
>>> take
>>>
>>>> them out one at a time till I find the shorted part.
>>>>
>>>> The caps to ground look like the most obvious path to create a short.
>>>
>>
> Queue eerie Twilight Zone Music:
>
> http://hackaday.com/2017/03/13/raspberry-pi-hitches-ride-ins
> ide-vintage-terminal/
>
> ... but he quickly determined that a bad cap was shorting out the -12VDC
> rail ...
>
> hehe
>
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