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- From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
- Subject: Re: SE/30 Power supply replacement
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- Organization: University of Delaware
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:10:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep4.225737.9421@sequent.com> kfd@sequent.com (Ken Dove) writes:
- >Does anyone have a good (cheap!) source for replacement
- >SE/30 power supplies? Something with the normal SE/30
- >wattage rating would be fine.
-
- Soft Solutions repairs SE/30 power supplies for $95 (+ $20-$30 parts).
-
- However, power supply failure is rare for the SE and SE/30; the only
- common failure is that the on/off switch will sometimes die. I'd try
- jumpering out the switch before sending out for repair or replacement.
-
- Second, most symptoms that might seem to indicate power supply trouble
- are in fact caused by analog board problems, which are more common.
- Soft Solutions sells an analog board repair kit with good quality
- parts that can be installed by anyone with a multitester and a bit
- of experience soldering/desoldering circuit board components.
- (They also do repairs in-house for much less than the cost of buying
- a reconditioned board or ($$$) a new one from an Apple dealer.
-
- I just finished installing most of the parts from a Soft Solutions
- kit about an hour ago, and I'm using the Mac now. Somewhere in the
- middle of the process I happened to notice two cracked solder joints
- on the analog board -- which I proceeded to fix -- so I'll never
- actually know whether the new flyback transformer, transistors,
- rectifiers, and suchlike actually fixed my Mac. It does come up
- smiling every time I throw the switch now, so I prefer to think
- that it likes the new parts even if it didn't need them ... ;-)
-
- Contact info:
-
- Soft Solutions; 907 River Road; Suite #98; Eugene, OR 97404
- Phone: (503) 461-1136; Fax: 503-461-2005
-
- In addition to selling parts and repairing Macs in-house,
- Soft Solutions also sells copies of Larry Pina's classic
- Mac repair books. The Dead Mac Scrolls has certainly saved
- me a bundle ...
- --
- -- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
- -- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
-