27 March 2007

K1 - Power applied and no smoke!

A few more short sessions on the RF Board and I reached the point where you apply power and test the voltage at a few points points on the board. Slight panic when the 12V bus tested OK but I couldn't get any of the lower voltage busses. I tried tracing the supply around the board with the help of the circuit diagram, and I came to a place where a link is supposed to be fitted but not yet. Then I noticed that I had marked up the manual with a pointer to the erratum sheet. Guess what, this added the step of adding the link before making the voltage tests :-) With the link in, everything was spot on. And no hot, smoking components, I'm glad to say.

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