Well... You Guys Were Finally Right!

lol… after a long string of issues with my OSMC/Kodi-Pi over the years, you guys were finally right! Last night the Pi shut itself down. Every time I tried to start it back up, it would just sit there in a reboot loop. I measured the voltage on the supply and it was down to 4.73 volts unloaded. Upon taking the power supply apart, sure enough two filter capacitors had blown their tops. Replaced those and I’m back in business.

Just wanted to let y’all know! :slight_smile:

3 Likes

Probably better to get some beefier psu just to prevent it from happening again.

nah… It’s not so much an inadequate power supply as it is bad design. I see this every day in television switch mode power supplies. It used to be a major problem with motherboards a while back, too. Inferior capacitors coupled with too tight tolerances lead to premature failure. I always replace the caps with higher quality versions with slightly higher voltage ratings and I have never had a callback for those caps. I mean, when you have a 12v line, common sense should tell you that you don’t want to use a 16v capacitor, but I see it everyday. Anything to save a penny I guess…

1 Like

The 5V power supply market is so competitive that the quality has gone to hell

Add to that the poor quality cables they use. I’ve seen 5V coming out of the SMPS and then a drop of easily 0.5V across the crappy Chinese cables.