> Fine
Print. Warranty may be void under the condition the user applies
> electric current this product. I think standard caps are only good for a
> few 1000 hours. You get what you pay for.
Not really true. There is apparently little attention to thermal design
or component quality. Ergo: Built-in obsolescence. If we ask "who
I reas really suprised earlier today. I have a very cheap small, (5.5"
CRT) B&W protable TV/monitor that I use on my workbench for displayiug
the output of home computers, etc. It's handy becuase it's so small.
Anyway, althoug it was very cheap, it's not too badly made. I am not
suggesting it's like a Barco. but at least all the component positons are
labelled _on both sides of the PCB_. Connections and presets are
labelled, that sort of thing. The only thoign I didn;'t like was that the
components were not 'formed' nicely, they had long wires, not fitted down
to the PCB (I know, of course, that it's a good idea to space components
that disipate a lot of power off the PCB, but not things like disc
ceramic capacitors).
Anyway, today I had to crack open the wall-wart that powers it, a simple
13.5V (nominal) thing. Crack open being right, it's gleud together.
Anyway, I had 2 suprised :
1) The trnasformer hs an internal thermal fuse in series with the primary
-- this thing is safer than a lot of wall warts out there
2) The smoothing capacitor in the wall wart (which is a linear thing,
tranformer + bridge rectifier + smoothing capacitor) was labeled 105
degreeC. Better than I'd have expected.
On the other hanmd they saved all of a penny by not fitting a bleeder
resistor, for all there's space on the wall wart PCB for one. I've
remedieed this...
benefits?" we get a useful answer, too.
Ben.
So we all now have no problems with that, or what?
I have a big problem with it!!!
As do I/ I also have a problem wit h the fact that many of the so-clled
'green' measures do more harm than good. For example leded solderwould
not be a polution problem if things werer repaired, and thus didn't go to
landfill until they were at least 50 years old...
-tony
