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by greg_Archive
Equipment: ATR 102 #3 (bought used, not working)
In: Take up tension sensor bounces causing the machine to unload anytime the transport is in forward motion.
Out:
Repaired: Blown trace on PWA motherboard, supplies +20V to reel servo board.
Date:2000
This was a very hard thing to find. The voltage appeared to be there when in stop mode, with the board on the extender, but drooped to nothing as soon as the machine went into action. I thought somewhere the current was being limited (which it was) and replaced the diodes and power transistors on the main deck plate, then swapped psu, then thought there must be something up with the motor, swapped that. Nothing had a positive effect. I pulled my hair out for a while. At some point I looked at the trace on the connector side of the card cage mother board, and saw a black dot on a trace. It looked like someone touched it with a fine tipped sharpie, no burn marks. It was feeding the +20v to the reel servo board. I think there was a rch of wire left, so I would see +20v when I measured around. As soon as the board needed more current, that dropped. After soldering in a jumper the machine operated normally.
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greg_Archive on Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:45 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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