Got mine today! Great build quality.
First things first, checked the power on my scanner to see if it was alright. Hooked her up and turned her on. Drivers instantly short out and fuse blows on the whole house.
No doubt due to my electronics incompetence somehow... So what can I do with this kit then? I don't really have the electronics experience to fix this or do anything, so I don't know what to do with it.
Alright, so I've been ridiculously busy with the work project that could well define my entire future career, but that's over and it's back to lasers.
So the kit has been left back at my parents and I won't get back to it for another 4 months. But I did do some more tests and I'd say it was shot. Still not completely sure what happened, but I don't really care. Time to see what I can about repairing.
For some background info I bought a 12kpps RGY scanner and a matching DAC (Moncha, excellent quality DAC) a while ago for about $600. These were great and I certainly had fun messing around and tweaking them, but I wanted to get some more colors out of it. When I saw this White Fusion kit it was perfect, shame about my badluck though.
This project has got too a stage where the fun is over and my lack of experience with electronics is getting expensive. So firstly I couldn't for the life of my fix my White Fusion kit, sightfx are you up to look at it, or maybe someone else with electronics experience can have a go?
Secondly, this is an interesting offer, but is someone interested in taking up this entire project and trying to get it working? This is not because I'm lazy, I'm just way out of my depth in a sea of very expensive things, and it would be safer if someone more capable has a look. I'll cover any costs, naturally. If anyone is even interested in buying all these parts too I'd be up for that. Lets say $800 USD, and you get all the parts for a 12kpps RGV full analog scanner, comes with a professional DAC and software to run it. Some assembly required, lol. For any trusted member of these forums they can have a "repair first, pay later" clause so that if they can't repair it, nothing will be wasted.
So, interesting offer there. If you're great at electronics and have an interest in scanners, here's an opportunity for you, lol.
pictures to follow...my camera isn't even close to getting this right, it realy over states the blue side of things.
it was like 50 min on and a few min rest then 1 hour or longer on and a few min rest then 40 more min on, last night after and durring final alignment it ran for 20min on and a few min off, then 45 min on then off. there's no case yet so this is in open air with finned heatsinks on the semiconductors and a small pc fan blowing on everything, nothing gets above room temp and power out peak is 191mW 
