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Eug · Jan 20, 2003, 11:10 PM

I earlier posted that I bought this case for my external laptop drive.

Well, it blew up today.

Luckily the drive still works.

G4ME · Jan 20, 2003, 11:46 PM

ouch, thank gwad for warranties, BTW what is that, hair of the plastic mealted and pulled apart.

Eug · Jan 21, 2003, 12:22 AM

Originally posted by G4ME:
ouch, thank gwad for warranties, BTW what is that, hair of the plastic mealted and pulled apart.

It was the "stuffing" of that component.

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Jan 21, 2003, 12:47 AM

It blew up 24 hours out of the box? gee wiz!

itai195 · Jan 21, 2003, 01:14 AM

Man, I wish mine did something cool like that.

Eug · 09:50 AM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
It blew up 24 hours out of the box? gee wiz!

Xbench is evil...

I had just finished initializing the drive and was running Xbench just for the hell of it. That's when I hear the KABLAM!

The funny thing was that the drive still seemed to be running fine afterwards even while still in that case.

xtal · Jan 21, 2003, 09:15 AM

<bad joke>
I guess they don't call it Firewire for nothing.
</bad joke>

Eug · Jan 21, 2003, 05:21 PM

Hmmm... Others are saying it's likely just a reversed capacitor, and thus a manufacturing defect with this unit only, not a design defect. Ie. just my bad luck.

I wonder if I should get another one, as the store has obviously offered a replacement...

ae77 · Jan 21, 2003, 07:09 PM

holy batman

G4ME · Jan 21, 2003, 09:44 PM

depends on the cap and whats its uesed for, many are polorized so that would explain the explosion.

also it might be just a bad cap, that would explain why it took such a short time to "pop"

Socially Awkward Solo · Jan 21, 2003, 11:37 PM

Originally posted by Eug:
Xbench is evil...

I had just finished initializing the drive and was running Xbench just for the hell of it. That's when I hear the KABLAM!

Probably trying to teach you a lesson for being so anal because you are running stupid benchmarks

Eug · Jan 22, 2003, 02:52 PM

Take 2. I've ordered one of these:

Comes with power adapter if required but it too is bus powered. Has one 6-pin port, one 4-pin port (with no power obviously), and only is good for 9.5 mm drives.

I must say www.fwdepot.com has very fast order processing. I ordered online and within an hour I had a UPS tracking number.

Hopefully it works out better. Fortunately www.CompGeeks.com says they'll just refund the $ for the other enclosure on my credit card. They usually offer store credits it seems, but this is an unusual "case".

Eug · Feb 4, 2003, 11:18 AM

OK, got my new Firewire case. Hopefully this one will be better.

There are no power ratings on the unit itself, but there is "5V" on the box, and "5V 1.3A" on the AC adapter. Hopefully, that latter rating on the adapter is indicative of the what the enclosure can handle. My drive is 5V 0.7A, which is 0.1A more than the previous enclosure had marked.

If it means anything the biggest cap on the board says 5V 35V 7uF 47uF HY 105 o (degrees) whatever that means.