18 Jan
2009
18 Jan
'09
4:25 p.m.
symptoms of
degradation), we replaced them rather than deal with them
one by one as they failed. In our experience with our PDP-10 machines,
this was (despite its cost) cheap insurance against periodic failures,
which can occasionally be catastrophic.
That depends, a lot, on the PSU design. Certainly SMPSUs can do some
very odd things if a capacitor goes open-circuit or just high ESR. How
much damage that does to the rest of the PSU or worse the rest of the
machine depends on the design.