Re: Netgear R6300v2
Well, nothing you can tell without a scope anyways.
Unfortunately, it appears there are a lot of buck-type regulators (anywhere where you see a coil) instead of linear ones. Linear regs are usually easy to test, as you have an input and an output to test voltages. For the buck-type regulators, you really need a scope to see the ripple/noise they are putting out, because if there's anything to go "partially" bad with those, it would be excessive noise/ripple on the output.
An easier route might be to install parallel ceramic capacitors with all of the buck-regulators' output ceramic capacitors (all of the groups of ceramic capacitors in the upper-left corner of this picture.)
Originally posted by Gorrillasnot
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Unfortunately, it appears there are a lot of buck-type regulators (anywhere where you see a coil) instead of linear ones. Linear regs are usually easy to test, as you have an input and an output to test voltages. For the buck-type regulators, you really need a scope to see the ripple/noise they are putting out, because if there's anything to go "partially" bad with those, it would be excessive noise/ripple on the output.
An easier route might be to install parallel ceramic capacitors with all of the buck-regulators' output ceramic capacitors (all of the groups of ceramic capacitors in the upper-left corner of this picture.)
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