Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Peter B Van Campen <peterb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 March 2004 08:00 pm, James Knott wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Monday 2004-03-15 at 17:42 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> >>I used to be a computer technician, supporting many mini-computers.  I'd
> >>often notice that failures occurred on power up.
> >
> > Or probably simply "detected" at power up.
>
> Well, if they were working fine prior to shut down but not after power
> up...?
 

Hi Guys,

My memory goes back to before 1970, and it tells me that Power On is the most 
stressfull event in any electronic equiptment, but even more so in computers. 
The scarriest things were the 150HP Motor-generator units. They could take 6 
hours to stor spinning, and when you started them up again the lights dimmed 
for many seconds!!

But seriously, large capacity Capacitators are notorious for failing at power 
on, esp. if they have completely drained by the time you hit the button

PeterB
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