Meta - Troubleshooting Tutorials

We get a whole lot of basic troubleshooting questions on the forum.  These questions range from basic and generic to detailed and specific.  A lot of the project specific troubleshooting gets lost in a thread quickly when 10 people are asking different questions.

If you have suggestions and/or submissions, please drop me a PM or drop the link in here.

Troubleshooting the SMPS:
http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=19733.0

Troubleshooting the linear power supply
http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=19810.0

Yes I will keep it Jakob, it would be an honor.

I am working on this tutorial right now, first installment will be general overview of the SMPS sprinkled with some humor. It should be a fun read and have some easy to understand info. As time goes on I will hone it and add more details to it as people need.

If anyone else would like to see a specific topic or write a tutorial on it just drop it in the thread.

More information on linear power supplies:

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/powersup.htm

Advice from a long time analog troubleshooter:

http://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooting-Analog-Circuits-Design-Engineers/dp/0750694998

TC Electronic problems... - on repairing TC SMPS power-supplies that fail to start: This is a very common error with the TC "Wizard"-series, i.e. nearly all their 1u units..
http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=20801

Good to see R.G.Keen is still posting.

Thoughts on amplifier hum sources:

http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/star grounding amps.pdf

Bye,

Peter