Promises of Progress » sbd212 http://casper.warming.com/blog Wits - or GTFO Wed, 19 May 2010 11:58:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Classic failure http://casper.warming.com/blog/2008/11/08/classic-failure/ http://casper.warming.com/blog/2008/11/08/classic-failure/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:41:20 +0000 casper http://casper.warming.com/blog/?p=53 Sometime during friday, some of my sites (including this one) dropped off the net. I was out drinking, so the fix had to wait until saturday. The reason seemed to be related to the hardware in the soekris powered gateway. A quick Google search returned something interesting: The Soekris-shipped power supply, SMP 12V 1.5A, part no SBD212, is known to spontaneously fail. A quick run to Brinck Elektronik, and I had a replacement unit (12V/1.7A SMP at 169DKK) – and we were back up. 

I would have loved to know of this risk before stuff died. 

And honestly – supplying a crappy poweradapter like this with quality hardware – seems a bit like serving a sirloin steak on a paper plate.

And you’re right – I have no idea of the reliability of the replacement adapter.

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