On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti luca@ventoso.org wrote:
En/na VDR User ha escrit:
On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti luca@ventoso.org wrote:
Just a wild guess, but if you usually leave your vdr pc switched on, leaving it off for a while could make it not work right when turned back on (usually capacitors are to blame).
Where did you hear this? 100% incorrect.
It actually happened to me, twice: an old pace mss1000, unplugged while on holiday, didn't turn on when I came back, I had to recap the power supply. One year later the same happened to the tv (this time it was just one capacitor in the power supply). Oh, and bad capacitors is a known a plague in many motherboards (yes, I have one that failed due to bad capacitors, you can see those for the leaked electrolyte or the bulged top, and even my current vdr machine needed a replacement capacitor).
Yeah, I know how to tell if a capacitor is bad, went to college for electronic engineering. In all my years of working with electronics I have never seen a capacitor blow because a device was left on for a long period of time and then turned off. I'd recommend buying better equipment if you're having a problem with (cheap) parts failing. Although there's really only a small handful of component manufacturers that are generally used anyways..