Advice/Suggestions for repairing Apple III power supply

Geoff Reed geoffr at zipcon.net
Mon Jul 23 13:58:17 CDT 2007


Quoting Josh Dersch <derschjo at msu.edu>:

> Hi all --
> 
> Picked up an Apple III this weekend in non-working condition, and I 
> suspect the power supply is at fault.
> 
> Symptoms are:  On power up, a rapid clicking noise is emitted from the 
> power supply (maybe 4Hz or so), and the power LED on the system's 
> motherboard pulses at the same rate.  Obviously I haven't run it for 
> more than a few seconds like this :).
> 
--Snip---

Last time I had a power-supply that was clicking there was a bad transistor and
a couple of failed caps...



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