Vacuum gauge controller repairs: (n+1)th time...

How are you going to sleep with these on your bed? (The bedsheet doesn't accumulate that much static charge, so it's a very good place for electronics repairs, provided you aren't prone to losing components.)

By the way, these photos weren't taken in my room.

The last time I mentioned the controller, I wrote a lot of text. I won't write that much this time.

The problem remains essentially the same - earth leakage. I've lost count of the number of circuit breaker trips it had given us: including 2 long rows of power sockets in school. (Tsk... the school administration is unaware of it. They should unlock the circuit boxes anyway - then I'd have gladly restored the power for them.)

After a lot of insulating efforts and testing, the problem is (hopefully) narrowed down to the diodes on the power board; the leakage seemingly coming from the positive terminals of the diodes.

Power board removed...

Dismantling the modules...

There's so much that's wrong about this photo...

What remains of a very expensive (see Varian 845) scientific apparatus.

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