Hello all,
I have an Astron RS-20A power supply on my bench to power 10 Pro-2055's that I monitor and tinker with. Recently following a power failure (way too common in this area) I found that the radios running off the power supply were all dead. A quick check with a few wall warts proved all was well with the scanners but the Astron was presumed dead from some unknown event at the time of the power failure. Last week as I was doing some antenna cable work behind the bench I plugged the Astron in and connected a radio to it's power strips, when the power switch was flipped on it worked perfectly. Later in the week (it had been powering 4 scanners for three days) I rearanged some more cables and had to unplug and replug the power supply back in. Following the powering down and back up the Astron is now once again a great paper weight. It shows an output voltage of 1.3 VDC I have tried leaving it unplugged for periods of time and powering it down by the switch and the plug as well as disconnecting all equipment from it. Still dead (well not completely dead but pretty much useless).
Has anyone else seen behavior like this from an Astron (I have used them both at work and at the Fire station without incident for years)? Does anyone have any experience with repair to these units? I am perfectly happy taking things apart and tickling their inards, sometimes they even work again! I am about to do some web searching on this but I figured I would toss this problem out to you folks first to gain any insights from other users here.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Tom
I have an Astron RS-20A power supply on my bench to power 10 Pro-2055's that I monitor and tinker with. Recently following a power failure (way too common in this area) I found that the radios running off the power supply were all dead. A quick check with a few wall warts proved all was well with the scanners but the Astron was presumed dead from some unknown event at the time of the power failure. Last week as I was doing some antenna cable work behind the bench I plugged the Astron in and connected a radio to it's power strips, when the power switch was flipped on it worked perfectly. Later in the week (it had been powering 4 scanners for three days) I rearanged some more cables and had to unplug and replug the power supply back in. Following the powering down and back up the Astron is now once again a great paper weight. It shows an output voltage of 1.3 VDC I have tried leaving it unplugged for periods of time and powering it down by the switch and the plug as well as disconnecting all equipment from it. Still dead (well not completely dead but pretty much useless).
Has anyone else seen behavior like this from an Astron (I have used them both at work and at the Fire station without incident for years)? Does anyone have any experience with repair to these units? I am perfectly happy taking things apart and tickling their inards, sometimes they even work again! I am about to do some web searching on this but I figured I would toss this problem out to you folks first to gain any insights from other users here.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Tom