[Asterisk-Users] Having problems with S100U

Mark Spencer markster at digium.com
Wed Sep 10 13:55:03 MST 2003


Remember the S100U has to generate high voltage (-48V when idle, plus
about 70v a/c on top of that when ringing), and it does it all with 5V.
It does get a little warm.  That's normal.

Mark

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Ernest W. Lessenger wrote:

> My S100U also gets quite warm. I haven't had any trouble with it though.
>
> --Ernest
>
> At 01:31 PM 9/10/2003, you wrote:
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> >Jason A. Pattie wrote:
> >| I have another observation for you.  Do your S100U's get warm?  I've
> >| left this one plugged into the USB port and the red LED is lit on the
> >| unit even though the wcusb driver is not loaded at this time.  I noticed
> >| that the unit gets warm whenever the driver is loaded.  I've left it
> >| running now for around 2 - 3 hours and it is still quite cool to the
> >| touch.  I will install the wcusb driver and see if the unit heats up.
> >| Maybe all these issues that people have with these devices are heat
> >| related?
> >
> >It's now almost 2 hours later and the device has been spitting out the
> >error messages documented in my earlier posts.  The S100U is it seems
> >now at a "stabilized" heat level.  It is not uncomfortably warm but
> >feels like a transformer you might have plugged into the wall.
> >
> >It felt warmer fairly soon after I modprobe'd the wcusb driver, around
> >20 minutes.
> >
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> >Jason A. Pattie
> >pattieja at xperienceinc.com
> >Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com)
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