I was using a Linksys RV082 8 port router, but I wanted more ports, so I got off ebay a 13 port Linksys RV016 router. It has 16 ethernet jacks, but two of them are for WANs, one for a DMZ, and the other 13 are LANs for PCs and such. Many rooms in the house now have ethernet jacks (wifi around here is too congested and slow). Received it, got it running. Then a few days later the power supply dies. Seems the power supply input filter cap had gotten used to 120VAC in, and when I connected to 240VAC it eventually went bad and took out the bridge rectifier and fuse. The cap, 47uF 400V was bulging a little, tested it with a BK Precision 878 LCR meter, it had a really bad "D" value and almost no capacitance, replaced it with a 47uF 450V and the bridge with 4 1N4007s.
Back on the air, but the router did seem kinda too warm, not hot, but warm, so I installed a small "CPU Cooler" fan and a small wall wart switching supply for it. The router power supply seems cooler now. Also added a little more heat sinking after I took this picture.
Back on the air, but the router did seem kinda too warm, not hot, but warm, so I installed a small "CPU Cooler" fan and a small wall wart switching supply for it. The router power supply seems cooler now. Also added a little more heat sinking after I took this picture.
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