Hello,
I am in the process of restoring a 577 Curve Tracer. Since there are a couple of previous, bodged repairs on the power supply, I decided to give it a good overhaul (replace caps, install repair eyelets in places where original pads were damaged, replace a non-fitting bridge rectifier that was "rigged in", etc.). Taking the power supply out of the frame is a major pain with the primary and secondary transformer leads directly soldered onto the PCB. I am considering putting Molex connectors (the ones that use 0.093" pins) in-between the PCBA and the transformer leads when I put it back together to make any repairs going forward a little easier. I would use a 15 circuit connector for the secondary and a 9 circuit one for the primary leads.
Has anyone done this before or see an issue with this?
Any reason you can think of why Tektronix chose to solder these to the PCB rather than using connectors like for all other connections to this board?
Thank you for any thoughts/insights,
wschraml, KI7PFX
