Re: Belkin fried in storm?

R Johnson wrote:


It's probably near the power socket because it was looking for a path to earth. If you have a switched mode supply it may find the neutral and be happy with the PD. If not and Worse case, it would have a good go at tracking along any RJ45 leads looking for one. Subject to insufficient opto isolaton (or none).

The PSU, a linear one I think, still works, but has quite high ripple. That was the only other device plugged in, the router was being used purely as a WiFi device, no ethernet connections at all, so as you say it tried to find a route to earth via the PSU.

I've told my friend that once the insurance company have finished with the affair to ditch the PSU as well. I'll ask him to give me the ADSL filter, that'll be interesting to examine too. His ISP (TalkTalk) are sending him a new router FOC anyway.


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