Hi Techs, Let me be the first to tell you all that I really haven't had great luck repairing SMPS's lately. VCR came in dead, apparently after a hydro outage, when the power came back on primaries on two other appliances were open and this VCR's SMPS was dead. Fuse was blown, main switching transistor and driver transistors on the primary are OK yet the fuse blows on AC plug-in. I've checked ALL diodes and transistors, everything tests OK. Base of the main switching transistor has .7VDC on it all the time, so this transistor is "ON" all the time, hence the blowing fuse. I need more information on these SMPS's, I.e. Where do the switching pulses derive from? If anyone has a schematic on this SMPS, please send it along. Thank-you David Lessard Alexandria, Ontario. Canada mr_fixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/