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.
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…