However, the Miglia has also died on me twice in the several months I've had it, just suddenly dropped dead, refused to turn on. The Miglia company took it back both times and fixed it quickly on warranty, the last time by replacing the entire circuit board, so there was only the inconvenience of being without it for ten days or so each time.
I've been trying to figure out why this box died twice, wondering if maybe it could be my setup, and hoping to prevent it from happening again. The box draws its power through the firewire connection on the Mac, and it strikes me that maybe this Quicksilver G4, with all the PCI cards, USB cables, and four big hard drives I've stuffed into it, perhaps is overloaded and not delivering enough power to the Miglia converter to keep it happy and healthy. I know that power tools and other electrical items that are forced to work too hard with too little power (from overly long extension cords, etc.) will sicken and die from anemia. Are electronics the same?
The Miglia box has a receptacle on the back for an external power source, which I'm not using, and I presume it's there for situations where there is no firewire connection to draw power from. So I thought maybe I'd just go ahead and connect external power to the box to make sure it's getting enough juice. However, if I did that, then the box would be getting TWO sources of power, since the firewire cable would also be still supplying it (can't disconnect the firewire cable to the Mac, of course, because all the data is also flowing back and forth through it).
So if I added external power, I wonder if then I might have the opposite problem--TOO MUCH power, maybe eventually resulting in a dead box again, this time from overload instead of starvation?
Anybody with electronic savvy got any thoughts on this situation? Am I all wet with the notion that the converter box may have died twice because of an overly strained--- and therefore under-delivering--- power supply in the Mac?
Tom
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