Andrew de Quincey wrote: >>claimed MTBF is surely 5-10 years for such chips. >>more likely your card got overheated in summer in the pc case... ;) >>this would cause chip damage, or electrostatics. > > > The machines are well ventilated: they're in air conditioned comms. rooms at > multiple sites - I don't think they're overheating. It is a major pain > though :( > > ok, according to this http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/images/2/2c/Fujitsu-siemens_dvb-c_jumper.jpg and this http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/images/1/1d/Tt_dvb-c_2.1.jpg http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/images/2/20/Dvb-s_1.3_hauppauge_wintv.jpg in comparison to this http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/images/c/c2/Dvb-s_1.3_technisat_skystar.jpg technisat engineers acknowlegded one problem: operating temperature of the ves1xxx chips. so i'll apply a heatsink and report. this just to be sure: schorpp@tom1:~$ sensors w83697hf-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore: +1.73 V (min = +1.71 V, max = +1.89 V) +3.3V: +3.27 V (min = +3.13 V, max = +3.46 V) +5V: +5.01 V (min = +4.76 V, max = +5.24 V) +12V: +11.97 V (min = +10.82 V, max = +13.18 V) in5: +3.04 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.26 V) in6: +3.12 V (min = +0.03 V, max = +0.26 V) in7: +3.18 V (min = +0.13 V, max = +0.26 V) in8: +1.79 V (min = +1.02 V, max = +0.00 V) fan1: 1985 RPM (min = 1500 RPM, div = 4) fan2: 2445 RPM (min = 1997 RPM, div = 4) temp1: +29 C (high = +40 C, hyst = +37 C) sensor = thermistor temp2: +49.0 C (high = +60 C, hyst = +55 C) sensor = thermistor alarms: beep_enable: Sound alarm disabled -board an power supply are 4 months old. y tom _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
