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KJINTF
Aug 15, 2013Explorer
They all have the burned area under the resisters - normally the resisters are fine no need to replace the pcb trace however does need attention - solder in a wire to repair the traces - Q13 is good as well
That cap behind Q13 is defective replace it
Take a close look at those 200Vdc 1,200ufd caps if they show any signs of failure replace them
As suggested earlier get yourself a nice ESR meter - a DVM aka DMM is useless when checking caps - Good ESR meters use about 150Khz with less than 400mv so should not forward bias any semiconductor junctions incircuit testing is very simple
You should be good as new with less than $5.00 in parts
That cap behind Q13 is defective replace it
Take a close look at those 200Vdc 1,200ufd caps if they show any signs of failure replace them
As suggested earlier get yourself a nice ESR meter - a DVM aka DMM is useless when checking caps - Good ESR meters use about 150Khz with less than 400mv so should not forward bias any semiconductor junctions incircuit testing is very simple
You should be good as new with less than $5.00 in parts
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