[volt-nuts] Curious overvoltage event

Andrea Baldoni erm191ba3 at ermione.com
Mon Aug 10 11:50:35 EDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:22:47AM -0400, Chuck Harris wrote:

> If the mains supply hangs around in certain brown out voltage ranges, it
> can fool the start up control circuitry into exceeding the ratings on
> the bootstrap circuitry, or the inrush limiting circuitry, and toast parts.

Hello Chuck. Thank you for your idea.
As I wrote later, I was wrong and the involved circuitry is another one; even
if at this point it could be not a mains-related failure, it's still a curious
thing that two PS failed in exactly the same way in such little time.

Best regards,
Andrea Baldoni


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