| Title: | system management communications forum |
| Moderator: | CHEST::THOMPSON |
| Created: | Fri Mar 21 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jul 08 1993 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 490 |
| Total number of notes: | 2018 |
Hi there all you people with brand new VT330 and VT340 terminals.
Bet you thought you were on to a good thing when you unwrapped them
and plugged them in.
How wrong can you get!
Those extremely efficient Taiwanese people who made your
terminals for a very competitive price also included a teeny weeny
design fault in some of them. Yes the sticker on the back may SAY
it will run from a 240Volt supply, but inside the box the mechanical
gubbins is wired for 110Volts.
This means that every now and again the little green light on the
terminal doesn't come on and you are left with a particulary useless
piece of high tech equipment on your desk because there isn't even
a fuse to replace.
We have a choice. Recall all the terminals and get them all checked
out while we go back to VT100's, or continue with the Friday-night
power supplies and call in field service as and when they go kerphut.
I vote for the first choice. But, if you want your terminal checked out
now(ish), then please phone me - 6746.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 92.1 | Wot's wot, watt? | RDGE00::RUSSELL | Dick Dastardly was misunderstood. | Tue Nov 24 1987 08:22 | 18 |
Jerry, physics was never my strong point,
but if the box is really set to run at 110V, and you pass 240V
up the wire, then I would have thought that the box would go
****************BANG*********************
or
....phut....
or whatever, but stop working immediately.
Damn clever, these chinese...
Peter.
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| 92.2 | ..p.. ..ph.. ..phu.. ..phut.. | ELBOW::DRAPER | Steve Draper | Tue Nov 24 1987 08:31 | 8 |
> ....phut....
Yup - it will (just as Jerry said). But the amount of time before
it says that depends on the rating and tolerance of the components.
steve
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| 92.3 | Confucious vs. Faraday | RDGE00::THOMPSON | Tue Nov 24 1987 16:46 | 5 | |
Don't be so silly Peter, they'd only go phut straight away if the
LABEL said they could. Being good little chinese electrons they
wait until there's a whopping great power surge before the gubbins
goes phut. Didn't you read the Thoughts of Chairman Chang Kai Shek
when you were young?
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| 92.4 | That'll teach me to ask. | RDGE00::RUSSELL | Dick Dastardly was misunderstood. | Tue Nov 24 1987 19:26 | 7 |
Oh well, I said physics never was my strong point.
Thinks... what is my strong point? Answers in pencil on the back
of #10 notes to RYO 2/2...
Peter.
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