Skanti P6001

Typical voltages measured on an old repaired unit 30/5/17 MM0TJR

See annotated schematic, attached, for test points

-ve probe on +ve probe on Operating mode voltage Overcurrent shutdown remark
mode voltage

PL5 PL4 24 11 Output voltage

PL5 A 9.5 6.85 Regulator preamp
sense level
PL5 B 19.4 5.35 Regulators preamp
reference level
PL5 C 9.43 6.8 Reg. preamp drive
PL8 B 36 36 Regulator amplifier
toprail
PL8 PL5 16.56 27.2 “Circuit ground” to
output –ve
PL8 D 6.81 0.77 Foldback supply
PL8 E 0.65 0.347 Regulator amplifier
drive
PL8 F 0.665 0.344 Regulator driver drive
PL8 G 16.6 27.1 Main reg supply
PL8 H/PL7 0.488 0 Pass array drive
Selected comments pasted from www.vintage-radio.net forum

D1 on all three both boards is a protection diode to stop the load damaging the power supply. D2/Q1 looks like the voltage comparator.
It's a bit of a naff circuit though. It looks like D2 is acting as a reference voltage on the right to compare the divider on the left against.
When the voltage between PL4/PL5 rises to a certain amount it will make Q1 conduct which will short out the error amp in the bottom of
the diagram via Q2. Without further analysis it looks like it compares the ratio of voltages between the divider and the zener reference.
The zener ref is quite soggy.

PL8 looks like it's "circuit ground" based on the connection to the filter capacitors so we'll assume that to be the zero volts reference. The
pass transistors are at ground by the looks so it looks like when there is 15 or more dropped across the pass transistors, the light comes
on due to the zener action on D4 which is the overload indicator. As for shutdown, I can't see anything that would indicate that it would.
The large number of pass transistors suggests it'll just eat the short until it's fixed, or explode.

Whole thing is a bit of an iffy circuit but it probably works. Not sure why people don't just build an LM723 into their designs for these
sorts of things. You get all the features for significantly less cost.
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It's unusual to see a power supply that uses silicon trnasistors that is regulated in the negative side.

The most likely cause is a failed BC547 or BC557, possibly one of the zener diodes or the preset resistor.

Connect a load and unplug the control card.

If there is no output then the fault is on the control card or if there is still a voltage present at the output connect a 100 ohm resistor
across Con1 and PL1 on each bank of transistors, disconnect PL2 on both banks and check for voltage from the positive output to each
PL2 in turn to determine which bank is at fault.
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Had a look at the manual and it makes more sense now. It should indeed shut down. I say should because the method used is somewhat
iffy which is sampling the pass transistor dropout voltage. The regulator input DC at high loads is going to have a ton of ripple so the
thing is only periodically going to be seen as regulating 43A so your mileage may vary. Usually you sample after the pass transistors and
then sample the voltage to compare with the reference after that using a divider.
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Q5 and Q6 are a current limit latch. If too much current is drawn the supply tries to maintain the output voltage by increasing the drive
to the transistor arrays. This causes an increase of voltage across R9, Q1 B-E and R1 ( for example). The increase in voltage will
eventually turn on Q6 which in turn turns on Q5 which turns Q6 on even harder causing an SCR effect which pulls down Q2 collector
removing the voltage from the drivers Q3 and Q4. Capacitor C3 prevents the pair from latching up when power is first applied as well as
preventing momentary surges from causing the trip.

Q2 amplifies the voltage from Q1 which is the voltage comparator. Referenced to PL8, if the output voltage is high then Q1 collector
should go higher turning on Q2, the collector of Q2 goes down reducing the drive to Q3 and Q4 and then the transistor arrays. The
collectors of the arrays go higher and the voltage difference, the output, between the storage capacitors C1 to C4 = positive output and
the negative output terminal reduces.