[evanretro]

I have a damaged Lucent Octane power supply for sale. The machine it was in clearly got dropped. The power supply is dented. On plugging in, it sparked and shut off. It no longer does anything. It doesn't have a handle. 

It's probably dangerous! It's basically trash! 

But it can be yours for $5 + cost of shipping from Massachusetts. Paypal F&F and Venmo ok.

[evanretro]

I was able to repair this and it's been sold inside an Octane.

[robespierre]

Could you summarize what you had to repair?

[evanretro]

Could you summarize what you had to repair?

Surprisingly to me, it turned out to be only mechanical damage:

- removed handle screw that was wedged in a bad place, causing a short
- removed damaged fan
- hammered aluminum shell back into shape
- installed new high pressure fan
- deoxidized and reseated all cables 

After that, it fit properly in the socket again and worked. I wouldn’t make a habit of removing it though as the connectors to the front plane are slightly off.

[soviet]

My octane have a power supply like this that I purchased and arrived very damaged.
The octane could randomly power off and show "xio errors" at the console.
Apart from a broken handle and bend metal, the issue was the big coild on a board developed a cold solder joint.
This made the power supply very unstable but after soldering the coil pins again worked like charm until this day.

[vishnu]

That's why, at my place of employ, everyone of us who solder on contract products has to meet the mil-std for ability to solder. And then, every solder joint is inspected. Personally, I feel sorry for those inspectors, having to look at solder joints all day every day for their entire career. BORING!

[Irinikus]

That's why, at my place of employ, everyone of us who solder on contract products has to meet the mil-std for ability to solder. And then, every solder joint is inspected. Personally, I feel sorry for those inspectors, having to look at solder joints all day every day for their entire career. BORING!

This is exactly why I want and need one of these:

[vishnu]

We have all that stuff, but in our lab, where we do nothing but prototyping, which is to say, nothing that will ever actually go into the hands of our customer (until it's qualified for production). So when we have a problem, we get out our breadboards and our 10th of an inch IC sockets and start diddling around until we figure it out. Oscilloscopes are your friend.