Anyway, there has been an interesting development. My "analysis" wasn't actually that different, I saw two pins going to the same place on the PCB so I was thinking "OK, whatever is coming out of those two pins, it must be in pair because one pin is perhaps not enough". So I did it, I desoldered the transformer, to check what's wrong.
When you look at the transformer, you would immediatelly think something like "Oh suuure, it is the broken pin on the right", right?
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So I was looking at that hole *in plastic* seeing absolutely no sign of anything conductible whatsoever (there is only one other pin with "setup" like that, others have something coming out of the transformer). I was like YOLO, let's take the loose pin, warm it up and just smash it into the plastic, hoping that there is *something* conductible inside, some magical pudding
.Did it work? Hell yes it did! Well, maybe. I let the TT run without PSU cover for about two hours - I have recapped the whole MegaSTE PSU while running YAARTTT (yup, had zero faith that it would work so I was preparing this PSU for the TT), Storm, Thunder, IDE SD card reader installed. I still have to try it with the Lighting + Mach64. But it's a good sign. It's true that maybe it is a coincidence - remember I did resolder all the joints, I even fixed some joints which looked suspicious (while comparing it to the other PSU), so who knows.
I'll report when I will have it all up and running.
