On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:38:47 GMT, wrote:

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:38:29 GMT, Ross Herbert
wrote:

On 10 Mar 2007 02:21:14 -0800, "rupert" wrote:

hi i am a self taught repairer of basic electronic items and have
been
doing it for about 4 years, as i buy faulty items repair them then
sell them on but i have a batch of about 25 PVRs i have repaired
about
20 of them but there is one part on the last 4 that i need and
cant
identify

It is on the power supply board

it is labelled RT1 and looks alot like a small capacitor

it has the marking 8S100L on it

it is one of the early components on the board (next after the
fuse-
F1))

please help as i have repured the rest of the board but am sure
that
i
need to replace this aswell as it is showing scorch marks


Highly likely that RT means Resistor - Temperature (dependant).

It will be a NTC inrush current suppressor.. Since the unit is not
likely to be using more than a couple of 10's of watts at most you
could use one such as this

http://www.ametherm.com/Data%20Sheets/SL08%2010001.pdf

Could this device (or similar) be put in series with my halogen puck
lights that keep blowing bulbs - and would it help?


Could you please explain what a "puck light" is?

I am familiar with the standard halogen downlights operating from ac
mains supply via a transformer but not knowing the specifics of your
particular halogen I couldn't say whether the NTC would help.