plustek: driver killed my Epson 1260... and I repaired it :-)
Subject:
Re: driver killed my Epson 1260... and I repaired it :-)
From:
Gerhard Jaeger ####@####.####
Date:
14 May 2004 08:22:52 +0100
Message-Id: <200405140922.18760.gerhard@gjaeger.de>
As Thorsten does not answer, I'll try...
the problem seems to be, that under certain conditions, the motor consumes
too much current and thus the fuse gets blown. As Epson knows this,
they had the posibility to fix that in their driver, but we had to figure out
the correct settings by testing and in the fist approach we failed :-(
This behaviour has been fixed in later backend versions...
Ciao,
Gerhard
On Monday 03 May 2004 01:13, Maurice Andres wrote:
> Did you kill it twice? Or is the 2400-dpi scan what killed it
> originally?
>
> Andres
>
>
> 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
