On 8/20/2009 2:59 AM Geoffrey S. Mendelson spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

Well, if you re-read what I wrote, real carefully this time, you'll find
that there's at least one thing that most definitely *does* have a SMPS,
which hasn't failed yet.

And I have other stuff with SMPSs that haven't failed yet either.

It's not that the one unit has an SMPs and another does not. It's that the
SMPs in question are designed, like the rest of the unit, to last longer
than the warranty, but not much more.

I'm not so sure about that. In this case, the warranty has long been
expired, yet the power supply merrily chugs along. (I bought it in
1999.) So how long do you consider to be "not much more" than after the
warranty expires?

Let's get a little more specific here, pleeze.


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