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Electronics projects, vintæg computing, programming and repairs. A minimalist blog of sorts.
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It fried the push pull output stage.
So far for the obvious damage. After replacing these parts, it still did not work however. Checking the supply voltages: it has two 5V rails, one is used for the front panel display, the other however, independent of the first, is used to supply the actual signal generation part. It sat at 1.8V. R131, the big 5W resistor, got really hot. It had a voltage drop of over 12V across it. First instinct was to check the voltage regulator U6. It checked out fine. So something was pulling this rail low.
U23, the CA3046 transistor array to the bottom left, wasn't properly soldered in. So this was one of the first things I fixed. I of course socketed it, which meant that taking it out of the circuit was a no brainer. Not the fault.
Q13 and Q14 also checked out fine. Next instinct was U14, the SN75107 line reciever. I've seen a lot of bad 75 series parts. Taking it out of circuit didn't bring the rail back to 5V either.
It was the 74S00 quad NAND gate. Of course always the last place you look.
I did not have an S series one on hand. I replaced it with a 74F00, I hope that's fine.
Works again!
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Yesterday on the bench: a Soviet made oscilloscope!