plustek@linuxhacker.org

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:55, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 11:31, Gene Heskett wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > From the clues here, where most have reported it went dead in the
> > middle of a scan, no light, no motor, no nothing and the carriage
> > is left sitting in mid-scan, darned near the only thing this old
> > troubleshooter with 50 years of experience in electronics can
> > believe is that the PSU died.  
> 
> But if the PSU dies, this can be checked easily! Or is that PSU a built-in 
> one? All my Merlin scanners (Plustek, HP, Musktek) used have an extra
> PSU outside the device. So it's possible to replace it quickly.

A PSU is a power unit? The epson has an external power unit. I hadn't
checked if the power units were broken; I don't have any spares.

And what is a PWM? The internal scanner-motor?

Greetings,

Hein-Jan