Subject: driver killed my Epson 1260... and I repaired it :-)
From: Thorsten Schnebeck
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 03:35:11 +0100

Hi!

During some test with the plustek-driver from sane-1.0.9 with xsane I killed 
my Epson 1260 scanner. The device was dead. The green frontpanel LED did not 
work.

I opend the device (2 skews backside) and checked the connector PCB. F2 (a 
SMD-fuse) was defect. It is labeled with "FK". Sorry, I don't know anything 
about technical data of this fuse, so  I changed it with something I had at 
home (250V/1A T) and adopt it to the SMD pads.

After this the scanner works again.

My test results so far:

Driver works perfect with any mutiple of 75dpi to 1200dpi.
Choosing something like 800dpi the steppermotor is very noisy and scan-process 
very slow. I killed my scanner, when make a 2400-dpi scan. (Ok, ok its a 
1200dpi device but xsane offers me that resolution and I was curious :-)

Bye

  Thorsten