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| Posted: 06:36am 16 Jun 2024 |
I've done more bench-testing, and the VCR can ALMOST start with 22-ohms series resistance. The LCD display lights up, but then the SMPSU fails, and it switches off.
It then cycles, but never is able to start.
Using 15-ohms, it DOES start, but the 1W carbon resistor just about goes into nuclear meltdown!
But that is only cos a 1W carbon resistor, is simply not grunty enough for what I am subjecting it to!
On 18-ohms, the VCR cycles and refuses to start.