Wednesday, August 29

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Phase Of The Moon Bug

The problem with my Western Digital drive turns out to be heat sensitive: It acts up when it gets cold.  Because when it gets cold, my heating kicks in (actually a reverse-cycle air conditioner) and the voltage dips for a moment.  The baby power supply that came with the drive doesn't have enough smoothing to cope with that, and the drive goes bye-bye.  The weather has warmed up over the last week or so, and I've stopped having problems.

Of course, in a couple of months I'm going to want to run the air conditioning the other way, so before then I'm going to invest in a small UPS.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:20 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 I bought a UPS a couple of years ago on a whim.  It has saved my bacon any number of times.  Good choice!

Posted by: GM Roper at Thursday, August 30 2007 11:24 AM (S60yG)

2 Test comment.  Commenty comment.  Comment comment...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, August 30 2007 11:26 AM (PiXy!)

3 If a reverse-cycle air conditioner describes what I think it describes, how do they keep the coils outside from freezing over when the temperature outside is already near freezing? I don't think I've ever seen one.

Posted by: Will at Saturday, September 01 2007 06:58 AM (SOx9v)

4 What is this "freezing" of which you speak? razz

I'm guessing that the reason you haven't seen them is that they don't sell them where the temperature gets that low.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 02 2007 05:18 PM (PiXy!)

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