[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix hanging (was Re: EtherK not starting up reliably)

In article <71416e5d4e.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Fryatt
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip interesting stuff about PSU]

> All of which is irrelevant if we're quoting "5.06V on a spare
> connector", as seems to be the standard test around here.  That's why I
> think the test is totally meaningless.  It may always be true on an
> unexpanded Iyonix, but I would expect it to change when a second hard
> disc or similar is fitted (I suppose I could check that, now I've got a
> second disc fitted; if I get chance, I'll try to remember when I've got
> the current deadlines out of the way and I can 'afford' to break the
> machine).

I can wire a plug, or for that matter an entire theatre, but I am no
qualified electrician and these (potential) problems with an Iyonix PSU
leave me puzzled. We have a machine whose processor supposedly gobbles up
less power than a Plentyhum heater but whose PSU seems incapable of
delivering its meagre requirements. Is it that there is too little load
for tolerances to be met? Two hard drives here cause no problems, AFAICT.

Or are the PSUs a bit on the shoddy side?

-- 
Tim Hill,
<URL:http://www.timil.com/>

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