{"id":227,"date":"2008-08-15T20:56:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T01:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-05-17T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:31:58","slug":"silicon-dust-replacing-hd-homerun-power-adaptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/15\/silicon-dust-replacing-hd-homerun-power-adaptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Dust replacing HD Homerun power adaptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/failing-power-supplies\/\">power adapter failed<\/a>  for my Silicon Dust HD HomeRun (a network HTDV tuning device).<\/p>\n<p>They replaced my power supply and claimed that they were seeing only a 1% failure rate. As late as March 28th they were sticking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicondust.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=5089&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;start=0\">&quot;less than a percent&quot;<\/a>  figure. Eventually on June 3rd they posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicondust.com\/hdhomerun\/power\/\">offer to replace<\/a>  all SW20-S050-15 power adapters.&nbsp; Unfortunately for me, they did not send an email to all customers, so I did not find out about this until my power adapter failed (today) and I went to submit a trouble ticket and saw the notice.&nbsp; I guess that &quot;1%&quot; were causing them a lot of problems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve been very happy with the HD HomeRun unit itself, but once again, the el-cheapo power adapter is my weakest link and is keeping me from watching TV until the replacement arrives (and since it happend on a Friday, I&#39;m probably without TV until next Wednesday at least).<\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a HD HomeRun with one of the older adapters, head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicondust.com\/hdhomerun\/power\/\">replacement page <\/a>and order a replacement before yours dies.&nbsp; (So far the forums haven&#39;t listed any fires started by the failing power adapters, just dimples of melted plastic on the side due to the failure, so hopefully they are not dangerous.) <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January the power adapter failed for my Silicon Dust HD HomeRun (a network HTDV tuning device). They replaced my power supply and claimed that they were seeing only a 1% failure rate. As late as March 28th they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/15\/silicon-dust-replacing-hd-homerun-power-adaptors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-mythtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}