On 01/25/2018 07:16 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
OK, the top PSU of the pair in this machine appears to be healthy. The
bottom one, however, sits at around 2.5V on both the +5V and +12V outputs.
That's without any cards, and the card-cage fan / temperature sensor
unplugged, i.e. just with my dummy loads in place, so it looks like that PSU
has issues (oh, and I tried decoupling the PSU from the backplane and
loading it via the drive connector, so it doesn't appear to be a backplane
issue).
Looking here at page 107 of the maintenance print set, BA123-A Basic
Enclosure Power Harness Wiring Diagram
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/630/MP02071_630QB_Mar85.pdf
Did you disconnect the wiring harness from J10 completely? If you
disconnected the temperature sensor module or the card-cage door
interlock switch I would expect that the power supply might not
operate normally.
I believe that I tried it both connected and disconnected, with no change
in behavior, but I'll double-check (not until tomorrow evening now, though).
I need to look at how the signals on J10 interact with the entire PSU
internals - it certainly seems to get a -15V feed from the lower PSU of the
pair (the one that's causing me issues), but many of the wires run to the
fourth, small PCB that's in the entire PSU assembly; I assume that one
handles fan control as it also connects the the PSU fan and to J7 (which
supplies the fan in the mass storage area)
It seems strange to me that one PSU of the pair would sit in an
under-voltage condition due to a sensor issue while the other one would
continue to operate normally, though; at this stage I think it's more
likely that I've got a PSU fault (or a fault with the rectifier/relay board
which supplies it - I'm most of the way through tracing a schematic for
that board, so I can test some voltages sensibly tomorrow)
Will let you know how it goes...
Jules
