Tom MacIntyre wrote:
On 23 Feb 2004 01:06:27 -0800, (bleed-22) wrote:

I propose the term "electro-fry".

As in "I smell electro-fry."

There has to be a term everyone agrees on. Not the usual
stumbling... "You know that smell when electronic equipment goes bad
or takes a power hit."


Ideas?

I don't know, but I have actually seen the high-voltage transformer in
some older Samsung (I think) manuals referred to as the "fryback"
transformer. :-)

Tom

I've got a Technics SA-500 receiver open on the bench. On the p.s. section
of the board it has silk-screened: "REGURATOR."

BTW, (I should make a new thread?) if anyone has a schematic for this one,
there's a transistor -- Q-751, a C1398-- on the tuner section of this one
which is shorted. I'm thinking it's a voltage 'regurator' for the section,
but seems pretty 'hefty' for the purpose. Any ideas as to why that one
would fry? Everything around it looks good. The amp section works fine,
but the tuner (both AM & FM) started getting intermittant before it went out
completely. I'm hoping there's nothing downstream that's gone south, but
need to order the part before I can find out(?).

jak