On 2018-02-15 19:56, William Ahern wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:27:24PM +0100, Paride Legovini wrote: >> On 2018-02-15 12:07, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >>>> >>>> Note the very long working life (7000 hours, quite long for this type of >>>> component). >>> >>> Is 7000 hours really quite long? A device like the Soekris is supposed >>> to run 24x7 - and at 24 hours a day 7000 hours are less than 10 months. >> >> It's 7000 hours while operating at 105℃ and 35V, under normal operating >> conditions I expect it to be several times more. But see Attila's >> interesting reply, I'm not really an electronic engineer. > > I don't think Attila replied to the list.
You are right. He basically says that when operated beyond their specifications, especially with a ripple current that is too high, they can fail rather quickly. This could have been the case of the Soekris board. Paride _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
