OK,OK. You've shamed me into getting to the bottom of my PS problem. Inthe interest of "science" and helping others, I'll ship the thing to Christopherin Hawaii and see what he can learn. Woody

Jimmy, It's aPyramid Model: PS-15KX. You guys (particularly Roland) have shamed me into figuring out what the problemis. So in the interest of "science" and hopefully helping others,

There probably isn't a perfect solution out there. Only buying quality, brand name equipment helps. As would having a good multimeter in your kit and knowing how to use it. There are 12V gfci devices

Woody I see you still have 13.8 volts between the positive and negative terminals. Shorted cap, possibly May be same cap your friend replaced. Positive terminal shorted to -11 Volts below protective

Chris, Of course, you are correct – manufacturers would rathersave $2 and leave the risk to “probability and statistics”. I was just wondering what WE can do – invest in some kind of

Woody, what if I paid YOU to ship me that powersupply? If there is a potential problem with newer Pyramid powersupplies because they are cutting back on QC costs or something, a lot of peoplecould

Every additional component adds cost and manufacturers have toweigh costs against pricing, competition, sales and profits. Having a ground fault in Pyramid power supplies should bea rather rare

It might however shed some light on problems that others are having. We have one person who wiped out two laptops, might be the same issue. Rolando

Christopher, Thanksand I can tell you're dying to diagnose and fix this thing. But it's justnot worth it. It'smuch heavier and larger than similar switching power supplies and I nolonger value

I knew there was a discussion, but a search of the forum for "5.10.02" yielded and "driver" yielded nothing recent. Thanks.

Sounds like there is a short in the power supply electronicsto the frame ground. Could be a wiring problem, a circuit board problem, atransistor insulator problem or a screw fastener problem

USPS Flat Rate Priority Shipping goes to all 50 states and upto 50 lbs for the same low price. A large Flat Rate box (free at the Post Office) would costabout $15 to ship to Hawaii. If you really

Hi, Given that this power supply has happened to at least acouple of members, I wonder if there is a GFI (Ground Fault Interrupter) switchthat could be put on the mains supply – or a different

I posted an explanation on this forum when I announced the availability of 5.10.02. The 5.10.03 release is a version only for European users to try. I thought it might fix a problem that I haven’t

I'm confused. Ray's website for the driver shows the latest version that can be downloaded as 5.10.02, but the history page shows the latest version as 5.10.03 (has fix for comma-period swap issue).

Jimmy, Thankyou for this. I'm no electrical engineer, but I think I ran the test yousuggested. 1) Iset my meter to read DC volts. 2) Iturned the PS ON. 3) Iput the red meter lead on the red

Christopher, Thanksfor the kind offer, but this thing weighs a ton and isn't worth theshipping. Another group member has the same make and model I have and he had thesame problem. He replaced one

Actually that sounds very plausible. Rolando

I remember one member had warm cables back last year(?) His DC power supply +13.8 V DC lug was touching the power supply chassis. I think the current loop would be from +13.8 V DC to chassis to

Modern switching power supplies use a frequency of about 20Khz to 2Mhz instead of the old-school 60hz to change voltages from one level to another. The higher the frequency, the smaller the