{"id":10178,"date":"2013-12-01T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T02:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2013-12-02T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:16:38","slug":"we-wont-we-wont-roku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/01\/we-wont-we-wont-roku\/","title":{"rendered":"We won&#8217;t, we won&#8217;t Roku \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10179\" alt=\"Roku PSU Output\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RokuPSUOutput.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RokuPSUOutput.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RokuPSUOutput-160x117.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the 9V DC power supply for one of my Roku Soundbridges shouldn&#8217;t be doing <strong>that <\/strong>\u00e2\u2020\u2018\u00e2\u2020\u2018 . This is the second unit I&#8217;ve had to replace, my other Soundbridge blowing its 5 V supply a couple of years back. This one cycles from 9.4 to 4.4 V about 5 times a second. Not very DC, but kind of lethargic for AC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inside_roku_psu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10182\" alt=\"inside roku psu\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inside_roku_psu-320x239.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inside_roku_psu-320x239.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inside_roku_psu-160x119.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/inside_roku_psu.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to tell, but one of the caps inside the rather complex little <a href=\"http:\/\/unifive.com\/\">Unifive<\/a> wall wart may have blown. I&#8217;ve scrapped the PSU and replaced it with a beefier one. It seems that power supplies are a problem (see: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.roku.com\/viewtopic.php?t=16229\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.roku.com\/viewtopic.php?t=22733\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.roku.com\/viewtopic.php?t=22737\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.roku.com\/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=31605\">4<\/a>) on these machines, so I wonder when\/if I will need to replace this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the 9V DC power supply for one of my Roku Soundbridges shouldn&#8217;t be doing that \u00e2\u2020\u2018\u00e2\u2020\u2018 . This is the second unit I&#8217;ve had to replace, my other Soundbridge blowing its 5 V supply a couple of years back. This one cycles from 9.4 to 4.4 V about 5 times a second. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2749,2588,2748,1355],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-power_supply","tag-psu","tag-roku","tag-soundbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2Ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10184,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions\/10184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}