-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-08-10 23:59, John Andersen wrote:
On August 10, 2015 2:41:43 PM PDT, "Carlos E. R."
wrote: On 2015-08-10 21:35, John Andersen wrote:
I see no reason to worry about a 7 year old power supply. As long it was not affected by the bad caps era, these things can last forever, with maybe a fan replacement.
Plastics and several insulators degrade.
But the disk swaps David did.....???
Well, I don't mean in this particular case, the cause is yet unknown. I mean in general, in electronics. I have some valve radios still working (made around 1950, perhaps earlier), or rather, they worked last time I tried, ten years ago. I reviewed them when I was a student, replacing several of the capacitors and some browned resistors. Apparently electronics last for ever, but it is not so. Metal lasts, if it doesn't rust, but plastic insulators crack. Paper also degrades (there were paper capacitors, and paper layers in transformers). And paper is one of the most durable materials. It can be eaten, too! :-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXJRvkACgkQja8UbcUWM1zNkgEAjrDQV2wxYhsalkohd+sltlBs k5kVXLL3TIxH0e89NngA/jFQN7oWVn+s69xHk3ZX/BhNgUhZ7y5ZTnLeiIXRJHlZ =CTky -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org