I appreciate that asking to the simple obvious questions that we sometimes glaze over. I like to think that if anyone was digging in this far they would’ve already done that first but sometimes we forget 😉
yes simple voltage readings is the very first thing I did. 19.5VAC out of the transformer core with no load and 8VDC out of the regulator.
Hopefully some evening this week I’ll get a chance to look at it again and go from there.
John it is definitely an older brick, stamp on the bottom says 2001. I am almost curious what they changed on the newer bricks, not curious enough to go open one though 😉.