Recent content by JoeBliksem

Yeah, I've fixed apple drives in the past and it was very simple. I had one drive from my childhood. I think I fried it trying to diagnose what turned out to be the typical Newtronics open head problem. Then I bought three more off of Ebay, untested and cheap. Two of those also had open heads...

Thank you, I was a bit of cowboy going into into these repairs, so you're probably right. I think the issue is somewhere in the board circuitry, fried diodes or the like. I'll figure out how to test beyond the IC's and see what happens.

Hi, I've been struggling with this board for weeks and it's just not coming right. History I had a spare working drive that I wanted to convert to a Meanwell switching PSU because the drive is 110v and I live in a 240v country. The conversion worked and I was able to read and format upon my...

Had another more thorough look at head resistances. Red -> any other fails. I guess it's dead? Boy these things really are ticking time bombs?

Hi there - I am experiencing exactly the same symptoms with a (Newtronics) 1541 I got from ebay. You haven't perhaps solved this in the mean time? Cheers Joe