On July 21, 2018 at 14:12, Ernie Gilman said...
Shit happens. More than ten years ago I had two dead in the box Yamaha receivers in a row, the only ones I've EVER had. The rep was wondering what the hell I was doing wrong -- and he had known me for fifteen years at that point -- but after those two, I haven't seen another failure,
Yup, stuff mysteriously goes bad. It happens.
buzz's insight on power supplies is pretty good, too. He's DEFINITELY right about the low cost of the power supply!
An important thing to check about the power supply is its voltage when it's connected to the equipment. To get this, we'd need to have a power Y cable so we can connect the device and still connect a voltmeter.
I was kicking myself a while back when I threw out a Foscam IP camera I had because it was not working. I had a total of 3. I continued on with the 2 and threw that third one out when we were preparing for a move. About 6 months later, one of the remaining two stopped working. I decided to try swapping the power supply between the two and sure enough, the deadness followed the power supply, not the camera. Of course its still possible that third camera was indeed dead, but I wish I tried swapping the power supply first to see.
