[ale] tech "magic"

[Jim Kinney]

so much for my tech fu.

Dang switch ran all of 7 hours and died this morning with a power fail
box on "broil" after the fans went off.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone here has had it happen. Something fails and you get called to
> "take a look at it". You get there. take it and it isn't working. So
> you methodically take it apart, inspecting everything alonmg the way
> looking for failure points and find
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> nothing
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> it all looks fine
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> So you start testing a few thing as you put it back together.
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> all the parts work correctly even though 20 minutes ago they were all
> totally dead
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> Finally you plug in the reassembled device and it comes up normally
> and works perfectly.
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> The 3Com switch I noted last Thursday that likely had a dead power
> supply just ran me through that exact process. It works fine now.
> Power supply puts out a rock solid 14V (no load) and 12.01V at 10A
> load. All the fans work just fine.
>
> At least I don't have to explain "what I fixed" in an invoice...
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> James P. Kinney III
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
>



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