I've been lurking this forum for too long, but I've learned tons of stuff since I found the website!
I've been looking for broken electronics to beef up my component level troubleshooting skills.. unfortunately, it seems like most industries are moving away from it, and most of the info that I learned in college seems to need a bit of a refresher. I've been purchasing tools for a shop in my living room (Against my wife's approval!) and I just picked up a broken DC power supply off Ebay. I think it will be a good challenge to fix it, and maybe I'll put it to use if I get it working.
Unfortunately, I can't find ANY info on it! I've seen a few floating around, but when you search for the manufacturer, you just get a lot of pages from businesses that calibrate their products. It leads me to believe that maybe this is a government, or lab grade unit. I've seen a couple of pics online with the guts of similar products from this, and it looks really nice inside!
Vector-Vid is the manufacturer, but I wonder if that's just a name on another manufacturers product. Here's a link to the one I got...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vector-Vid-...076?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec393bda4
I've been looking for broken electronics to beef up my component level troubleshooting skills.. unfortunately, it seems like most industries are moving away from it, and most of the info that I learned in college seems to need a bit of a refresher. I've been purchasing tools for a shop in my living room (Against my wife's approval!) and I just picked up a broken DC power supply off Ebay. I think it will be a good challenge to fix it, and maybe I'll put it to use if I get it working.
Unfortunately, I can't find ANY info on it! I've seen a few floating around, but when you search for the manufacturer, you just get a lot of pages from businesses that calibrate their products. It leads me to believe that maybe this is a government, or lab grade unit. I've seen a couple of pics online with the guts of similar products from this, and it looks really nice inside!
Vector-Vid is the manufacturer, but I wonder if that's just a name on another manufacturers product. Here's a link to the one I got...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vector-Vid-...076?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec393bda4