Dreambox DM7025 Power supply

[Mark_The_Yid]

Bought it about a year ago for £67 but never needed it and has sat there since.

Open to offers.

 

[imbendecko]

Longest shot ever.... You still got this "sitting there"? My DM 7025 packed up.... It's the PSU for sure.

 

[hackmax]

over 7 years, well gotta admire your optimism.

You could look at fixing the PSU you have already? Could just be a few caps.

 

[imbendecko]

Thank you so much hackmax for giving me the impetus to learn how to do that... I made some n00b errors in the process.. but spent sometime on YouTube, fished out the old soldering iron, and hey-presto the bad cap replaced, and PSU working....

Polarity of capacitor on PCB

Cheers!

 

[hackmax]

Glad you got it working. You'd be surprised how many bad caps cause PSU's to fail and devices to be faulty.

I knew people who used to get large LCD TV's back in the day from tips that had died (stuck on standby etc.)

In nearly all cases a few bad caps on PSU and TV's were working, cleaned up and sold on at good profit.