[colug-432] mostly dead switch — diagnostics for fun

Chris Punches punches.chris at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 15:19:05 EDT 2018


What Linux Kernel version is it running?

-C

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:34 PM Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not an EE, but it seems like your momentary "dead short" is a cap
> charging (one perhaps intended to smooth out spikes/sags from cheap wall
> warts).
>
> And I think you want to measure your wall-wart's output with a load on it
> (otherwise, it seems like the circuitry could be hunting around to figure
> out what is really required downstream).
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Apologies - wrong units. That should read 500Ω, not mΩ.
>>
>>
>> On July 16, 2018 at 19:15:13, Rick Hornsby (richardjhornsby at gmail.com)
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Woke up this morning to a network dead switch at home. Well, not totally
>> dead but enough that the only remaining light was power, and it was
>> flickering like a fluorescent tube in horror movie.
>>
>>
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