Hello, thank you for the advice on repairing the failed power supply parts.
I do intend to repair them, my intent was to get one system working, and then move along to the others. I will admit i am anxious to get a running rsx system running. I have been working to repair cateract and power supply issues on adm 3 terminals, i have 16 terminals now working, 10 of them being adm3, others being vt100 compatible televideo terminals. On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 4:51 PM Peter Coghlan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > I am looking for advice to get the 11/34 system up and running. I have > > started to put together a site to document my progress, to stay on track > > with the repair effort. The system has 2 rl02 drives, and an attached 9 > > track tape drive. I had worked to repair a power supply issue at first, > > there was a problem with the main transformer, as well as one of the > > smaller voltage "bricks". Thankfully i have many systems and i was just > > able to swap in the needed working parts. > > > > I'd suggest repairing the swapped out parts that were found to be faulty > and putting them back in the systems they came from before going any > further. I know this seems like boring work as this doesn't seem to > contribute to any visible progress but it may be that minor differences > in ECO level, customisations, hacks etc could lead to surprises down the > road when parts from different systems are mixed and matched. Doing this > work first also means there is less danger of running out of working parts > if more failures should occur further along. Finally, it is going to be > easier to faulty repair parts when you have working examples of them to > make > comparisons with than if you have no remaining working parts to guide you. > > Regards, > Peter Coghlan. >
