BAD RUN OF REGULATORS By drifter (Read 563 times)

[drifter]

THIS IS A OFFICIAL DRIFTER CONSUMER UPDATE

so what, who gives a spit.

you folks may recall, i gave a warning post about bad scrappy dog voltage regulators.

it was a bit of a rant after I went going thru 4 or their break switches in one summer.

When it arrived i noted immediately it was not caulked with heat conducting goop, but instead clear house caulk, I said this would make the device over heat and burn out quickly.

About 3 weeks ago it did just that in under 4 months of service.

FOR THE RECORD I AM SURE SCRAPPY ABHORS THIS EVENT AS MUCH AS I DO.

The new one i just got from them was, filled with the proper black material

the old one has a blown capacitor, probably because the transistor over heated and blew first.

I have put a arrow to the blown capacitor, where you can see a popped cap.

if you get one of these clear caulk packed devils you might as well order a better one somewhere else.

Scrappy now is selling the black packed ones again

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[Alleyoop]

Thanks for the heads up, good poop to watch out for.
Alleyoop

[drifter]

AND TO CLEAR UP ANOTHER ISSUE,

i stopped doing this below, it hurt my tail.

[LUKE]

drifter, do you really own a scooter? i thought you are a novelist cuz the way you construct your sentence and paragraph are so magical, your choice of words are full of fantacies and romance. how do you do that? sometimes i have to ask my co worker to translate it to me. seriously im impressed.