[MLB-WIRELESS] dead wall warts

[Steven Haigh]

Yeah - definitely get the power company out to check your stuff....

On 04/10/2005, at 4:59 PM, Jason Hecker wrote:

> A lot of wall warts are designed for Europe which has power surge  
> protection built into the power network.  Australia doesn't have  
> such protection and even though the wall warts might pass safety  
> testing here they have a higher mortality rate in Australia because  
> of the rouger power we get here.
>
> Your mains is faulty.  Whether it's in the house or out on the  
> mains network is for your local supplier to work out.
>
> David Ashburner wrote:
>
>> Kind of strange, I have had 5 wall warts die on me in the last few  
>> months. I know they are probably
>> not the highest quality parts but still...
>> 2 x 12 v @ 0.5 amp (Minitar)
>> 3 x 12 v @ 1.0 amp (Linksys & Proxim)
>> when I crack on open and apply 240 to the primary side there is no  
>> AC on the secondary winding so it looks like it if failing in the  
>> transformer, I'm assuming some sort of current surge is blowing  
>> the fine wire on the primary.
>> I have noticed that the AC power is pretty rough, my UPS is  
>> constantly trimming the input voltage and you hear it switching in  
>> and out once every 10 minutes.
>> anyone else have this happen?
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