9 Nov
2005
9 Nov
'05
10:33 p.m.
Sebastian Br?ckner wrote:
I don't have room anymore either since I put a Challenge XL in the only
room I have for computers.
Apart from the amount of electricity it eats (I of course can't keep it
running full time) the power supplies keep dying. If I remember
correctly I already blew four or five and since I only have a few more
spares and not enough knowledge of electronice to fix them I am a bit
worried...
I know that those machines are supposed to run continuously but it can't
be quite normal that every other time I power it up one of the supplies
dies. Any hints? Is there a way to fix those things or to prevent them
from blowing up altogether?
Are you sure that you've wired your premises electrics correctly? That
could cause power supplies to keep blowing.
Do you have enough power supplies for the boards and other options you
have installed in the system? That could be doing it too. Or if you
had a boardset with an unfused short in it or something, although I
would think there's probably fuses in the backplane or something.
Peace... Sridhar
Why not get an Onyx2? They've come down in price
a lot. I was
thinking of picking one up myself.
I for one don't have room for one.