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Thank you for all  your suggestions.

Rigaku have discovered that shorting a couple of the output leads together means the new type can be used as a replacement for the old type.

I'm very happy to say that it works!

This is a similar solution to that suggested by Herman Schreuder.

Kevin Roberts pointed to  generally available replacements that required a change in voltage

Others were kind enough to tip me of about machines due to be replaced. I'm not sure I should identify them in public, but thank you anyway.

Peter


On 17 April 2012 09:58, Peter Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Is anyone about to "re-cycle" a Rigaku RAXIS-IV?
One of the inverters that power the erase lamps in ours is smoking, and
Rigaku have not been able to source a replacement for us, hence the message to the BB.

Our machine was made in November 1996 and uses the type of inverter  connected with four pairs of wires (Rigaku can source the more recent 3-pair types).  I can give more detail, pictures etc. but would not want to clutter up your inboxes.

This is not the first of these inverters to fail, so it would also be nice to find a source so we can keep going with it a while longer.
By "we" of course  I mean "I", as is the machine I  play with whilst more serious people collect data on our more modern system, I clarify this just in case anyone should think my colleagues here are also stuck in the 20th century....



Thanks, Peter

Peter Moody
Henry Wellcome Laboratories
University of Leicester
Lancaster Road
Leicester
LE1 9HN
UK
tel. +44 (0)116 229 7097


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