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Don Pearce wrote:
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:20:40 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

Just to say thanks to all for the tips - a couple of 10µF electrolytics
mounted on the PCB sorted it.

Only thing is what to do with it now - it's a great lump of a thing.
Ebay?

Sounds like a good idea. It was interesting to see how a real consumer
manufacturer approaches the tricky business of cost-cutting. And I
wonder how many died through oscillation. Warrantee repairs are
horribly expensive things to deal with.

To be fair it did work just fine for some 15 years.

d

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