Recapping Falcon PSU - My rectifier is different

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Recapping Falcon PSU - My rectifier is different

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I'm in the process of recapping a Falcon PSU with exxos' kit (hoping to tame a ~300 mV ripple on the +12V rail) and after replacing all the caps, I've noticed that my rectifier doesn't look anything like the one in the photo on exxos' PSU page, and also there's a resistor missing from right next to it (R4). (I imagine it's simply not supposed to be there, and this is just a slightly different revision of the PSU. I am also missing R18 in the upper right.)
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I am reasonably comfortable with electronics, but not nearly the level of a lot of you guys, so I figured I'd better ask here before continuing. Does anyone recognise this revision of the Falcon PSU, and am I good to continue here and replace the rectifier with the new one from exxos' kit?

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The bridge rectifier is the original square one and is correct. The one Exxos supplies is slightly different but has 4 legs so you need to make sure you align the positive and negative legs:

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R4 and R18 was missing from my Falcon PSU and they look the same. Recap worked fine.
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kodak80 wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:39 am The bridge rectifier is the original square one and is correct. The one Exxos supplies is slightly different but has 4 legs so you need to make sure you align the positive and negative legs:

R4 and R18 was missing from my Falcon PSU and they look the same. Recap worked fine.
Yep, no worries on the legs. Thanks for filling me on the other details. I shall continue the project. :)
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Oh silly me. If I'd just looked at the beginning of the Falcon section on the PSU page, I would have seen a picture that matches mine. Good job, me. :oops:
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The differences on the resistor are 110V vs 240V configs.. some better images in this section.

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...and it's done.

+12V ripple before...
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50 mV/div in both cases.

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:bravo: :goodpost:
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derkom wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:54 pm ...and it's done.

50 mV/div in both cases.

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Cool, so from 250mVpp to 100mVpp? What kind of load are you running here?
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Atarian Computing wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:45 pm Cool, so from 250mVpp to 100mVpp? What kind of load are you running here?
Both times just using the load resistors supplied by exxos. :) "5V uses 2.2R (loads 5V rail with 2.2amps) and 12V uses 10R (loads 12V rail with 1.2amps)"
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