[Tfug] Ezgo "book-PC"

[Bexley Hall]

Hi,

I rescued an Ezgo E7041 at WorldCare last week.
It's a cute little machine -- about the size
of an overstuffed CD-ROM drive -- with an
amusing complement of I/O (for a rough idea,
see http://www.ezgo.it/E7041pic.htm).

Unfortunately, the "brick" was missing so I'll
have to cobble something together for power
(a lab supply will work or the time being)

Has anyone played with one of these?  I think
it would be an amusing replacement for my {DNS,
firewall, font server, NTP, etc.} box -- though
obviously *way* overkill (since an LX handles all
this quite reasonably, now).

I suspect it was sh*t-canned due to bad caps.  :<
Which brings up another question:  I've seen a
*lot* of (different) machines plagued by this problem.
It's not confined to the off-beat brands, either
(i.e., I have seen Big Blue machines with the same
problem).

Unfortunately, I haven't been taking good notes
(since I originally thought it was a fluke and
only affected the cheapie manufacturers).  So,
I have started trying to tally the different
places I have seen the problem -- as well as trying
to save samples of afflicted caps (I'll start
running them through the RLC just to get a feel
for what the effects are -- no doubt increased
ESR).

What sort of experiences have others had with
this "failure mode"? (I want to be damn sure to
avoid any such component manufacturer!)

--don


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