Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dr J R Stockton Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.laptops,demon.tech.pc,uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: PSU wanted Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 21:03:11 +0100 Organization: Home Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <2Cv*x0S0v@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: JfH6RRPWQh8XzArFI0xgxA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-S () X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.laptops:29 demon.tech.pc:9 uk.comp.sys.mac:111146 In demon.tech.pc message , Sun, 29 May 2016 22:41:27, Graham J posted: > >I took it apart. The pcb has what looks like a regulator chip and a >big diode so it probably wants about 9v dc and might tolerate polarity >reversal. There's also a transistor and a chip with about ten leads >per side. So a bit more reverse engineering and I will get there ... The "transistor" could be a three-pin voltage regulator. I suggest that you give us (and Google-search) the part numbers of anything that looks like a semiconductor, but perhaps not the "date" indicator (I cannot recall what those looked like, and have not seen any with post-1999 notation). -- (c) John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ¬@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05 MIME. Merlyn Web Site < > - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links.