HP Printers

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Thu Sep 16 20:52:25 2004

Tony Duell wrote:
> I am suprised at you! The 'AC power supply' is really simple inside,
> there are no custom parts (in fact the only 'chips' are optoisolated).
> There are about 10 discrete transistors on the protection board, that's all.
>
> In other words, this is something you darn well should be repairing, not
> replacing.

Yeah, I know, and I felt stupid about sending the dead one back for
someone else to repair and send to some other SX engine user. But I
was (and am) up to my fundament in other alligators, I needed for the
printer to work soonish, and while I can solder, I understand analog
electronics something like you understand C, only less well. If I'd
left it for me to do it still wouldn't be done, and so changing it to
a "depot repair" sort of problem worked really well for me.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Thu Sep 16 2004 - 20:52:25 BST