On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti <luca@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > En/na VDR User ha escrit: > > On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti <luca@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
