Re: is it possible for x10 signal bridge to fail?

["Chip Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok, thanks.  Is there one particular brand of passive bridge to be preferred
to another?

I live in a small town, so I'll just order one, and then get an electrician
out (since we won't have anyone in town who stocks this).


"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Chip Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>> Since this is a completely passive system (my understanding anyway), I'm
> not
>> sure how it could fail,
>
> Capacitors fail all the time.  Do a Google search on: "capacitor
> failures"
>
> To read an interesting article about the recent scandal over bad
> capacitors
> that had a serious effect on the PC world:
>
> FAULTS & FAILURES
> Leaking Capacitors Muck up Motherboards
>
> "It has all the elements of a good thriller: a stolen secret formula,
> bungled corporate espionage, untraceable goods, and lone wolves saving the
> little guy from the misdeeds of multinational corporations. In this case,
> a
> mistake in the stolen formulation of the electrolyte in a capacitor has
> wrecked hundreds of PCs and may wreck still more in what is an
> industrywide
> problem.
>
> Aluminum electrolytic capacitors with a low equivalent series resistance
> (ESR) are high-capacitance components that generally serve to smooth out
> the
> power supply to chips. Throughout 2002, they have been breaking open and
> failing in certain desktop PCs. Motherboard and PC makers contacted by
> IEEE
> Spectrum have stopped using the faulty parts, but because the parts can
> fail
> over a period of several months, more such failures are expected . . . "
>
> continued at:
> http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html
>
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
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