G'day chaps and chapesses
I have an ancient, really really ancient, dual bench power supply 0-30v 0-2.5a. All analogue stuff, not a digit in sight.

One side is fine. the other winds up the voltage but doesn't drop down to less than 10v. This side had a fried 2n2055 and everything else seems to check out. The caps and all the other bits seem ok. Shouldn't be a major headache to sort, but it would be a bit easier with a diagram. I know it's a long shot, but anyone got a circuit? The manufactures in France can't help. This is probably well over 20 years old, and they certainly...

Re: ZD-985 desoldering station Power supply failure

That's a great help, thanks for all the time and trouble.

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Hmm, what an interesting site. So, here we go, the name is Paul and these days I'm living in Brazil, near Vitoria which is the state capital of Espirito Santo.
I'm almost a geriatric these days but have been in the electronics (since valves) and communications (since Morse code) world since the mid 60's (Said I was geriatric) Anyway, I made a career out of fixing more or less anything with wires in it, from 6kv generators and motors down to pcb level work on more or less everything. Most of this was in the offshore oil...