Man in a van wrote: > Nowt [emoji14] > > One I sent back to the rpi foundation (a 4gb that I had bought off a > member of another forum). > > Apparently there was a fault in a chip that caused it to overvolt. > > If you look over on the rpi forum, there are frequent complaints from > buyers with faulty rpi4b. > > In respect of the total volume sold, my faulty ones are not even a blip, > but it's over 50% of my rpi4b, which mounts up in cost. > > Imagine saving up to buy one, and it doesn't even work for twelve > months, one would be very disappointed. > > I always recommend official distributers as they often extend to a > goodwill replacement, but even they have limits, and there is no way to > find out the number of units that are rma'd. > > ronnie > > I have an original pi still going strong, a couple or so rpib+, a couple > of 2b, same for rpi3b and two rpi3b+. When I try to encourage someone > to use an rpi I often post one (sometimes two) to them for a trial > period :)My Pi4 is an early-ish one I think and still going strong. When I > had an Odroid U3 it failed when a fuse blew supposedly triggered by a power supply overvoltage but more likely some kind of random failure. It may still work if I could short the fuse out but surface mount boards are a pain to work on. Someone must have thought a non replaceable fuse was a good idea [emoji35]. That was my second U3, the first one failed with a different fault much more quickly. ZZ
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