Re: Profile drives care and feeding

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Peter Ibbotson asked:

>Is there a website with instructions on care and feeding of a profile drive?
>I've just acquired one (Thanks Paul) and before I plug it in I'd like to
>check the PSU out in case of dried out capacitors etc.

Don't worry--it is very unlikely that any capacitors have failed shorted.
Their most likely failure mode is low-capacitance, high ESR, nearly
open, which will not damage anything, though the drive won't work.

However, since I doubt that the ProFile PSU ran very hot, I would
not be surprised if it worked just fine.

Just plug it in and give it a try.  (BTW, if it's a switching supply,
you would have to provide it with a load to test it anyway.)

-michael

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