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Serious heat issue with Fuze V2
saratoga:
--- Quote from: nexekho on June 01, 2010, 09:30:44 PM ---The battery in the Fuze is up top (I know, I've taken one apart before to try and save it from water death, sadly I failed) and this heat is coming from the very bottom left corner whenever the blue ring is on. The PCB shows that there is a big blocklike component of some description which looks like some kind of power amp. Given its close proximity to the USB socket I'd say that's what RB has possibly blown up.
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Its some analog component so I doubt this is a rockbox problem. Since we don't really use it I'm not sure what it does. Maybe a voltage regulator for the battery or the LED lights. Either way, my point stands, something has failed completely and you absolutely should not turn the player back on. Replace it.
funman:
Perhaps the button LEDs are not designed to be powered on for 10 minutes as the OF never does that unless you scroll for 10 minutes.
1 minute with LCD on and LEDs on doesn't cause any heating on my fuzev2
nexekho:
I'm not entirely convinced. It isn't covered by warranty because technically it's a screen issue (which pretty much no limited warranty on the planet covers) and the power management system could easily experience undefined behavior if the wrong registers are set, etc. To you who said you've had one running with no problems, run Doom for fifteen minutes with the screen on full and see how long it lasts. I've also noticed that the original firmware now says "GOODBYE" when I turn it off; it never used to do this before I installed RB and even after reintroducing the firmware that used to be on the device it still comes up with it. Weird.
funman:
I think the OF introduced "GOODBYE" message a long time ago (on Clipv1/Fuzev1 at least, I don't remember if it was ever absent in Fuzev2 releases).
Do I have to actually play doom to cause overheat or can I just run it and leave it for 15 minutes?
nexekho:
Mine started having problems with metronome but it got rediculously hot with most plugins. Also make sure your brightness is on full.
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