Hi all, a while ago, I made a thread about getting a 002 or not, now, Yesterday, I bought it, for 120 euros. Very reasonable price, it seemed, and it is!
the unit is in good condition, except for one thing. several caps on the PSU are already a little blown up, and 2 started to leak slightly on the top.
You can see the blown up caps, and the 2 leaking ones, Also, you can see the white stuff in the first photo, which is glue, making it extra hard to unsolder the darn things.
I powered the unit up, without anything connected, and it started up flawlessly (not even any trouble with the power harness, at first sight), yet the caps need to be replaced.
Now, as I need to replace things on the PSU, "why not mod it"? I read everywhere the Digi002 PSU is noisy, and BLA replaces it with a linear PSU. However, as I can see in the youtube video they posted about their Digi002 mod, they add a toroid transformer, and filter caps etc, but do seem to "reuse" some of the original PSU (albeit modified, as they say it runs on a higher voltage rail).
Has anyone here had experience with the BLA mod, and would be able to give me some insight on the PSU upgrade?
If possible, I plan to add a linear power supply, running at +/- 18V, rather than the +/-12V. Anyone had some experience with that too? And how hard would it be to build an entirely new PSU, rather than replacing components...
UPDATE: looking at photo's on the internet, the PSU in my digi002 appears to have a different layout, and the "case" is a different material... could it be that it's already been replaced later on?
here's the PSU that's in mine:
http://www.unipowerco.com/pdf/ae-080u-ds.pdf
Thanks in advance,
Bert.
the unit is in good condition, except for one thing. several caps on the PSU are already a little blown up, and 2 started to leak slightly on the top.
You can see the blown up caps, and the 2 leaking ones, Also, you can see the white stuff in the first photo, which is glue, making it extra hard to unsolder the darn things.
I powered the unit up, without anything connected, and it started up flawlessly (not even any trouble with the power harness, at first sight), yet the caps need to be replaced.
Now, as I need to replace things on the PSU, "why not mod it"? I read everywhere the Digi002 PSU is noisy, and BLA replaces it with a linear PSU. However, as I can see in the youtube video they posted about their Digi002 mod, they add a toroid transformer, and filter caps etc, but do seem to "reuse" some of the original PSU (albeit modified, as they say it runs on a higher voltage rail).
Has anyone here had experience with the BLA mod, and would be able to give me some insight on the PSU upgrade?
If possible, I plan to add a linear power supply, running at +/- 18V, rather than the +/-12V. Anyone had some experience with that too? And how hard would it be to build an entirely new PSU, rather than replacing components...
UPDATE: looking at photo's on the internet, the PSU in my digi002 appears to have a different layout, and the "case" is a different material... could it be that it's already been replaced later on?
here's the PSU that's in mine:
http://www.unipowerco.com/pdf/ae-080u-ds.pdf
Thanks in advance,
Bert.