MP, Now that you found the Zapco circuit, this is only one of many in fact most of the circuits I have seen and repaired have no emitter resistors. Question is how do they get away with it? All this equipment is out there working day after day and they are all designed wrongly?? Ante ::)
thedreamer, It is possible to detect if it is power or a nail but the current cannot be measured this way. There are cheap detectors for this making a LED blink for power and lit constant for a nail or pipe. If you need to measure current there must be a known distance between the wire and your divice. Ante ::)
Hi steve, Welcome to this forum! A good place to start is http://www.beyondlogic.org/ And this is another http://www.epanorama.net/links/hwprojects.html Hope these will help you with your project! Ante ::)
Hi, tuzvihar About the changes of caps and diodes I can only say: Bigger is better!! I am looking forward to hearing about the measurements. Good Luck. Ante ::)
Steven, The d40d5 is as far as I can see a transistor NPN 1A 6,25W 200MHz and can be replaced with BD 419, BD 519 or BD 529. This is from an old semiconductor databook. Ante ::)
Hi, MARSMAN Mars is obviously connected to the World Wide Web these days. Welcome to this forum MARSMAN! Seriously; what you should watch out for is the voltage drop. A modern CPU consumes a lot of current and you will get serious voltage drop especially if you use standard wire. I think 5-6 Mtrs is not possible. The CPU harness is an untested issue as far as I know, I can
mastrila, Have you measured the voltage at Q4 collector when doing these tests? Is here enough voltage to supply the output or are the transformer and rectifier dropping too much? If there is plenty of slack here the problem is in the controlling part. Measure the base to emitter voltage under these load conditions. This is where I would start the troubleshooting. Please let me know. Ante ::)
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