Help resurrect my Xerox Altou

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 13 16:11:02 CDT 2010


> 
> On 9/12/10 5:00 PM, Ian King wrote:
> > Given what you're seeing with the 5v rail, my advice would be to 
> > first isolate the 5v supply and troubleshoot it. 

I htought the OP implied the system power rails were correct, it was the 
iternal 5V rail for the disk drive that was low.
 
> Most of the Mighty Mite 5v supplies have failed. They weren't all that 
> great to begin with. 
> 
> I'd be curious if you're able to get a schematic out of LH for it. I 
> have about 10 dead ones. 

Unless there's something _very_ strange about these supplies it whould be 
possiuble to reverse engineer them and troubleshoot them without an 
official schematic. Hekc, a lot of faults can probably be found without a 
schematic at all.

-tony



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