Hi all, I've been reading the DuoList for several months now and learned of the 2400 GLOD problems. I'm curious if anyone has looked at the design and tried to improve on it? My thoughts are: 1) If it's heat related, the regulator IC may need a better heatsink. The AC adapter puts out 24 Volts and has to drop it to 12 and/or 5 Volts. That is a lot of power to dissipate. The old linear regulators (if thats what it has) have to continuously dissipate P=V*I watts. I don't know how much current the 2400 draws, but if there's room to add a heatsink, it would be good preventative maintainence. 2) Does the powerboard have OVP (over voltage protection) and a fuse? If the regulator did fail, hopefully an OVP circuit would take over and clamp the voltage to a safe value that wouldn't kill the logic board! 3) I don't own a 2400, but I have a 2300c. Does anyone know if they have the same powerboard reliability issues?
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