Bimmer Owner wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:47:31 -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote:

I don't see why it is so hard to unpot one of these things and repair them
directly, especially if it's a semiconductor failure.
Put a bigger transistor in there.

Here are pictures from the last half dozen who tried that approach:
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470740.jpg
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470742.jpg
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470745.jpg
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470747.jpg
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470748.jpg
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470750.jpg

These are kind of sloppy jobs. But it's clear there are two TO-3 devices
there which have been removed in all of those photos.

One problem with "put a bigger xtor" is that nobody on this planet
has produced a decent circuit diagram of the FSU.

Well, has anyone got docs on that mystery IC there? It's from Elmos
Semiconductor, but it's not a standard Elmos part number on it, so it's
almost certainly a custom, since it doesn't look like anything in their
standard book.
--scott

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