Joe, I've got a problem with the low negative voltage regulator on a quasi comp Rev C board. I'm getting -30 volts DC with rail voltage of 76. I'm getting + 20 on the other side. I had hi DC offset which took me to the regulator...
Thanks Navo, I get a pretty sinewave through it but I'm not happy with it.My Q10's are running what I think are a little warm. Bias won't go below 330mv either. There is still a problem. I have an out of tolerance resistor someplace...
You were seeing 30V because the fail safe diodes kicked (D80, D81) in to protect the rest of the circuitry. Those 2 diodes do nothing in normal operation. They protect in the event of the VR1 and VR2 regulators failing to do their job.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis. You see what will happen in the event of a component failure and try your best to mitigate the failure and keep it from propagating into a cascading failure event. This is SOP for us in HA design.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis. You see what will happen in the event of a component failure and try your best to mitigate the failure and keep it from propagating into a cascading failure event. This is SOP for us in HA design.