That mirrors my experience - the stock power supply is the weakest link.
It fails but seldom cleanly, it'll result in remotes not working or
music stopping suddenly (ugh). That is about the only reason I stopped
replacing stock PS and got a bunch of linear supplies.
...pablo
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I had a feeling it was the PSU because the Transporter has the same
symptom when the PSU fails. The display goes out but it still works. A
week later the unit stops working entirely.
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alfista wrote:
> Was that measured with the PSU connected to the SB2? A common failure
> mode of these are to measure fine on open output but buckling when asked
> to drive any load.
Take a bow, alfista! Turns out it was indeed the PSU.
I tried plugging in the PSU from a SB3 I also have, and
cliveb wrote:
> The power supply wall-wart is fine, supplying 5.08V.
Was that measured with the PSU connected to the SB2? A common failure
mode of these are to measure fine on open output but buckling when asked
to drive any load.
Ah - I thought the meaning was it was only used in Ethernet not that
there was never any Wi-fi available on that particular device at all.
That does explain a couple of recovered SB2 devices that I have with
holes in the back ... I had thought that the card and antenna had been
taken out to use
Paul Webster wrote:
> You can try taking out the wifi board even if not using it.
> I have a SB Radio that will not boot with the wifi board in it but will
> if I take it out (and then use it from ethernet).
The wireless on the SB2 was an option, the board may not have been
fitted
Jeff
You can try taking out the wifi board even if not using it.
I have a SB Radio that will not boot with the wifi board in it but will
if I take it out (and then use it from ethernet).
Paul Webster
http://dabdig.blogspot.com
Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin
My SB2 (bought back in 2005) seems to have finally turned up its toes.
A few weeks ago the display apparently failed, but the unit was still
working and playing OK.
Yesterday I went to use it and it was totally unresponsive, and not
showing as a player in LMS.
The power supply wall-wart is fine,
