On Sunday 22 October 2017 00:31:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2017 21:18:28 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 October 2017 20:36:28 andy pugh wrote: > > > On 21 October 2017 at 23:50, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > wrote: > > > > I have 4 ea 5i25's. A 5th one has been tossed as the ptc blew up > > > > hard enough to leave a carbonized crather in the pcb. > > > > > > You seem to have a rare talent for breaking Mesa cards. > > > > > > > Plugged into the huge Optiplex 745 with a 3.4 GHz dual core > > > > intel cpu, 2 of them will turn the power led orange, which stops > > > > the boot in its tracks in under a second from powerup. > > > > > > I have never seen this with a Mesa card directly in a motherboard > > > slot. I _have_ seen this when using riser cards. Are you using any > > > sort of riser card? > > > > + > > No, sorry to disappoint you. :) > > And just maybe I am not D.I.W. till I get some more 5i25's, toward the > end of the coming week now. Walking out of my midden heap/den/computer > room just now to take my nightly pills and get ready to catch a few, I > spied a box with some r-pi packaging in it, and halfway to the bottom > of the box was a brand new, still sealed in the pink bag, 5i25 with a > full height backplate. So that one will get tested tomorrow. A sticker > even says it already has the correct firmware loaded. > > My grin is pretty wide right now. > But I am not going to get at it in whats left of the day today.
You see, radio engineers are a dying breed, no magic left in the FCC ticket, and I am close to the last in this patch of woods. So when the phone call came in from our local AM daytimer that his nearly 70 yo, 1kw Gates transmitter was on the fritz (again, I've been keeping it on the air for nearly 20 years now) I told him it would take a bit to get it all in one sock, but that I'd be there after taking care of the Missus. And I spent the rest of the day replacing semi-cooked parts and tubes. But although we both looked high and low for an 8200 ohm 2 watt resistor that I think is in its death throes, Digikey was as close as we found some more of those. 5 of them, metal film 3 watters S/B here Wednesday sometime late. But I'm bushed. He has a 50 watt night time transmitter for backup, so that will get some daytime use. As the saying goes. I'm not the man I once was, even once. :) Sigh... > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
