Thank you for all your suggestions. Rigaku have discovered that shorting a couple of the output leads together means the new type can be used as a replacement for the old type.
I'm very happy to say that it works! This is a similar solution to that suggested by Herman Schreuder. Kevin Roberts pointed to generally available replacements that required a change in voltage Others were kind enough to tip me of about machines due to be replaced. I'm not sure I should identify them in public, but thank you anyway. Peter On 17 April 2012 09:58, Peter Moody <pcem1bigfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anyone about to "re-cycle" a Rigaku RAXIS-IV? > One of the inverters that power the erase lamps in ours is smoking, and > Rigaku have not been able to source a replacement for us, hence the > message to the BB. > > Our machine was made in November 1996 and uses the type of inverter > connected with four pairs of wires (Rigaku can source the more recent > 3-pair types). I can give more detail, pictures etc. but would not want to > clutter up your inboxes. > > This is not the first of these inverters to fail, so it would also be nice > to find a source so we can keep going with it a while longer. > By "we" of course I mean "I", as is the machine I play with whilst more > serious people collect data on our more modern system, I clarify this just > in case anyone should think my colleagues here are also stuck in the 20th > century.... > > > > Thanks, Peter > > Peter Moody > Henry Wellcome Laboratories > University of Leicester > Lancaster Road > Leicester > LE1 9HN > UK > tel. +44 (0)116 229 7097 > > > http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/biochemistry/staff/moody<http://redir.aspx?C=1a0a7175d81e495690bfd3f4b0e0afaf&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww2.le.ac.uk%2fdepartments%2fbiochemistry%2fstaff%2fmoody> > >
