Osborne OCC1

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jan 8 06:47:00 2003

Erik,

   I recently had an OCC-1 that blew something in the PSU. That odd thing was that it kept working! I wasn't really intersted in it so I gave it to Glen Goodwin. I expect that he'll troubleshoot/repair it soon.

   The PSU in my BBC Acorn also blew a cap recently. I pulled a cap (0.1Mfd 250 VAC) from a commercail PSU that I found in a scrap pile and I'm going to use it to replace the one in the Acorn.

   The good thing about working on switcher PSUs is that component failures are usually obvious!

   Joe

At 11:03 PM 1/7/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I dug up this post from a list that goes back over a year.
>
>I am currently making one good OCC1 from two units.
>
>I actually have a working system (thanks much to Don Maslin) as
>of a couple of days ago.
>
>Related to this post, though, is that the non-working system has a
>power supply problem and I wonder if that resister is it. Which one
>is it?
>
>Eric
>
>Louis Schulman wrote:
>
>> #> The MODEM is sort of rare and it and the disks are worth a few bucks but
>> #>the smoking Oz is $5 item IMO.
>>
>> In fairness, the smoke is most likely coming from a burning resistor in the power supply (I have had this
>> happen in several O1 computers in the past) and is a $.30 5-minute repair.
>>
>> Louis
>
>
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