| Squilliam said: Why would the power remain low unless the power adaptors are flawed in some way? The typical power plug ought to be able to deliver at least 20A or 2400W which is far more than any one persons home theatre system ought to use. Maybe im wrong, I don't particularly understand it but from a general sense it doesn't quite make sense to me. If the fans aren't spinning like they ought to due to a lack of current in a longer term situation then wouldn't the system also be unstable due to other errors cropping up? If that isn't the case then the fact still remains that the system itself draws half the power it did at launch so even if the fans are spinning with half the current they ought to have the system still should remain within the original specifications for heat due to natural conduction/convection and the far lower internal temperate of modern Jasper/Falcon units. As far as I can tell it makes more sense that whilst theres a corelation between Xbox 360s and power bricks that there probably isn't any true causation to say theres a direct link between the two factors. I.E. Xbox 360s are connected to power adapters, Xbox 360s fail, but theres nothing I can really figure would cause a link between the two without some actual data proving this is the case. As Microsoft faces a large bill for warranty repairs if there is a causation link then they would be in their best interests to mention it. |
Any power strip (with or without surge protection circuitry) is repartitioning its power intake to its output sockets. Even your barebones power strip (basically three wires that connect in parallel a number of sockets) can deliver fluctuating tensions as its innards can warp as they heat up and the electric contact between plug and socket can be less than optimally stable. Add to that some electronic acting as tension filters and you have a wider array of possible instabilty causes.
The power brick acts as a stabilizer (the frequency response that as I said I don't know details how it copes with differently fast variations of the input tension) but it doesn't generate power, thus it's quite irrelevant to the central issue.
That being what happens when the system is, for whatever reason, underfed. A good design would ensure that the chips never reach dangerous temperatures, throttling down the clock or even shutting down if they have to. In that sense, even instabilty - that will look like malfunctioning to a user - will be better than overheating the chip, which leads to the permanent hardware damage the knowledge base seems to be talking about.
Once again, I doubt very much that the power strips or surge protectors can be affecting the 360s all that much, but - regardless - the design of the innards of the console should be good enough to cope with extended shortages of power indipendently from the behaviour of the external brick.
