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Have a friend who acquired an old Nikon 94527 microscope but it didn’t come with a power cable. As far as I can tell from the bottom side markings it must have a step-down transformer inside it so it can take standard wall outlet AC power directly, but the three-pin circular connector on the microscope end presented a problem.
Welcome to the Technical Forum Alec. I was not able to find this one either. Every document I pull up tells me there is a power cable. Yet not stating anything. I am checking with others on this one. Maybe someone can find something I did not. We will let you know.
Your Applications Engineer colleague, David, pointed me toward a manual for a similar microscope. I think my original suspicion was correct and it probably was supposed to come with a specific external power supply that had an adjustable “lamp output”.
I told my friend to contact the university surplus sales person she purchased it from to ask them if they still have any of whatever supply was supposed to come with the microscope (it’s old, couldn’t find a manual online). Could maybe look at replacing the connector and just buying an external step down transformer to hookup if I could determine the connections (probably not too difficult), but I assume it would be meant for more of a specialty supply with an adjustable output (perhaps it’s just an adjustable transformer, but I couldn’t say without a manual).
If anyone could track down a manual or the specific external supply and associated cables that would be awesome. I asked hoping maybe someone with some old tribal knowledge about microscopes may know how these things worked.