[DuoList] 2x 2400 GLOD after long time non-use

[Hansel Chung]

That's possible. Usually when electrolytic capacitors are dying, they have some physical signs of stress or leakage.
Take it out and take a look.

Since you have multiple CPU cards, might want to fix the GLOD first? (typically fuses)

As for the heat, it's not likely a fuse would be involved in determining if it runs too hot or not.

-Hansel

On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Stefan Kiltz wrote:

> Hiya people at the duolist,
> long time lurker here with a question to all techies out there. I have two Comets (bog-standard PPC603e 180MHz) not working anymore. Thought I fried the CPU card with the first one. The second one worked fine all the way to me putting it on a shelf for a year. After re-plugging the power, all I get is the dreaded GLOD, followed by a faint (sort of rattling) noise originating vom the power supply daughterboard.  Thanks to Ralph Mawyer, who sold me one of his 603e CPU cards, I can rule out a CPU failure.
> Since working with electronics for quite some time (not professionally though), I know that capacitors, in particular the electrolyte capacitors, have a tendency to dry out and losing their capacity. Could it be, that the big capacitors on the power supply daughter card may have gone faulty?
> Second question would be if any of you people sees a chance to bring my NewerTech G3 upgrades back to life - back in the olden day, the first 2400 was my mainstay and I paid a lot of money for that NewerTech 240MHz G3. I believe it ran too hot, though not seeing any signs of excessive heat on the dye/heatsink plate. Maybe some sort of SMD fuse or resistore acting as one needs to be replaced?
> I'd really love to put them Comets back into action again, ideally with the G3 upgrade, which seems to be resembling gold dust these days.
> I'd really appreciate any tips or directions where to dig deeper.
> TaRa
> 
> Stefan
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