ARTEC Scanner What Power Supply?

[abrogard]

Hi....

 I can't get any responses from ARTEC no matter how many emails I send them.

 I have an ARTEC AM12E Plus Scanner I bought five years ago. I've been out of the country since then and just come home to try and use it and find I haven't got the power supply for it any more.

 I've tried various likely possibilities (I thought) but it won't work. Maybe I've destroyed it.

 There is nothing written on the machine that will tell you what supply to use. There is nothing in the documentation. I don't even know if it is AC or DC.

 Can anyone familiar with ARTEC scanners please help me?

 What kind of supply - AC or DC?
 What voltage?
 What current rating?

 I'm in Australia where we use 240v line voltage but I'd guess the output from the supply transformer, into the scanner, would be the same wherever you are and that's what I want to know.

  regards,

 abrogard.

[SkyScanner]

I had the same problem as you, so opened the scanner up and traced through the circuit with a meter. I turns out that the input goes via a fuse and c-r-c filter to a 7805 voltage regulator - all quite straight forward. Therefore, I would suggest a DC powerpack that provides 6-9 volts should be OK. The positive supply goes to the central pin of the power socket, and negative/ground goes to the sleeve.

HTH

SkyScanner

[tangyyer]

[quote name=\'SkyScanner\' date=\'Nov 2 2004, 01:53 AM\']I had the same problem as you, so opened the scanner up and traced through the circuit with a meter. I turns out that the input goes via a fuse and c-r-c filter to a 7805 voltage regulator - all quite straight forward. Therefore, I would suggest a DC powerpack that provides 6-9 volts should be OK. The positive supply goes to the central pin of the power socket, and negative/ground goes to the sleeve.

HTH

SkyScanner[/quote]
 I had the same question too! and thx!