On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Terry Kennedy wrote:
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 7:55:48 AM UTC-4, Kiran Otter wrote:
Recently, I started to notice that other digits in the tubes were
partially lighting up, and eventually the fuse blew. My assumption was
that the K155ID1 drivers had started to go, so I ordered six of them off
eBay, and tried replacing them.. which isn't hard, everything is socketed.
Well it didn't help, so I contacted Jonas. Jonas suggested replacing C6,
which I did and it appeared to fix the problem.
Yes, that kit tends to "eat" the HV filter cap. I've replaced it in
multiple clocks multiple times. Eventually I suppose I'll just figure out
how to get a Tayloredge HVPS module in there, and swap the supplies the
next time the cap fails in each.
Mine blew the fuse too, good to know i'm not the only one who had this
problem. Also good to know C6 is the likely culprit. My clock has been
sitting unused for a while.
-Dan
