Re: gEDA-user: ping 2

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Greg Cunningham wrote:
>>    ...while some of us are doing other stuff while wondering why some
>> people like to watch grown men chase a ball around in the grass! ;)
>>
> Well I saw about 20 mins of it this season... Just enough to remind me
> that I am more interested in this stuff...

   More power to ya.  I've never needed such reminders. ;)

> Just to turn the OT discussion around, something of interest to you
> buzzing clock guys...
> My ipcop firewall has been dropping & raising its ADSL connection a
> couple of times a day for several months.  I suspected possibly the  
> RED
> NIC as it is an old SMC 10baseT PCI that I think had the 'sniper'
> firmware bug (would mangle the MAC dst under the right  
> conditions).  It
> connects to an Alcatel Speedtouch 530 ADSL modem via PPPOE.
>
> Turns out it wasn't the culprit.  It all went down for good the other
> night.  After I power cycled the Alcatel modem, I could see from  
> the LED
> sequence that it was restarting its sync procedure about 1sec after it
> acquired sync.  Power supply sag methinks.
>
> I broke open the modem to find an internal SMPS that had 2x 1000uF  
> 6.3V
> PCB mount electros with a tell-tale domed top indicating they had
> experienced excessive electrolyte pressure.  They are labeled:
> 1000uF
> 6.3V
> SC105
> 11/02
> A3
> TEAPO
>
> A pair of 105deg 1000uF/16V that I got of WES Components a couple of
> years ago were still short enough to fit under the hood so in they  
> went.
> Fixed.  Happy.  No buzzes.

   Cool victory, there!  So much for "no user-serviceable parts  
inside".  Nice work.

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007





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