"Lawrance A. Schneider" wrote in message
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Cooking the caps.

Larry

In article ,
Jim Thompson
wrote:

What's with wall warts? Do they have a five year warranty clock
built-in?

I just lost the third wall wart in a month.

All of them 5+ years old, or more, so I guess I can't complain.

What's to wear out... capacitors?

This one was for my Cisco BEFSR81 Router. I think it's actually a lot
older than 5 years.

I'm presently up and running on a bench supply :-}

...Jim Thompson

Hi Jim, most likely top posting by newbies:-(
I don't know why, but the switching warts seem to hold up better, maybe it
is less generated heat. The transformer ones seem to quit when the thermal
fuse on the primary lets go.
Tom