Ron Moorehead
11-22-2013, 8:14 PM
Ok, guys I have been lurking around here for a while now. I have a 6 year old GCC LaserPro Explorer II laser that has been working great. I clean the rails and lens before every job in the morning, the mirrors as needed. Yesterday I was running a job and hear a loud bang and the laser stops, the fans are running but the control panel is dead. I shut every thing down. Time to take a break and look at it in the morning. As I am watching TV and thinking about the laser it dawns on me that I have heard that noise before, it sounded like a capacitor blowing up, (pass life) so I started to look at the power supplies today and sure enough I found the power supply for the control board had a bad cap on it.
I called GCC and got a dealer name to get parts from called and they were out of the office, I went to the internet and looked up Mean Well power supplies and found the same one online ADS-15548 for $50.00 plus shipping. I ordered it. The dealer called back and we talked I told him the power supply was bad, I had put in on the test bench and applied 120vac and had no output, he had one in stock so I asked about the price, he said they just went up in price, but he said he would sell it to me for $700.00. Once I picked my self up off the floor I told him I would think about it and get back to him. Wow 14 times the price of what I found online.
My question am I missing something, in looking at the images and spec sheet on the one I found online it looks the same right down to the mounting screw holes, and output voltages.
I called GCC and got a dealer name to get parts from called and they were out of the office, I went to the internet and looked up Mean Well power supplies and found the same one online ADS-15548 for $50.00 plus shipping. I ordered it. The dealer called back and we talked I told him the power supply was bad, I had put in on the test bench and applied 120vac and had no output, he had one in stock so I asked about the price, he said they just went up in price, but he said he would sell it to me for $700.00. Once I picked my self up off the floor I told him I would think about it and get back to him. Wow 14 times the price of what I found online.
My question am I missing something, in looking at the images and spec sheet on the one I found online it looks the same right down to the mounting screw holes, and output voltages.