Mark has it pretty much, toss in the keyboard switches go bad as well, and even the assembly quality was poor.
The product was quite the low point for ESI and basically the end of their instrument line. A friend worked at ESI on their laser trimmer products and did not have many good things to say about their design follow through. -pete On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Mark Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > > A common fault with these is the Mostek CPU/peripheral chips on the > motherboard. The pins corrode away. > Another common fault is with the video monitor. I had one where the socket > on the CRT was bad... intermittent connection to the filament. Another blew > a couple of transistors. Also the pots needed to be cleaned. > ManualsPlus.com has the service manual... $70 > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
