I was resorting through the mess of cables behind my desk and after cleaning up the tangle made the stupid, idiotic, completely ridiculous mistake of plugging the power adapter for my linksys switch into my beloved linksys WAP11, which promptly made a soft popping noise, a small cloud of grey smoke, and is dead, dead, dead.
Taking it apart, it appears that two surface mount components are blown immediately downstream from the + side of the power connector. One is a tiny black rectangle, silver on the top third, marked A41. The other is a very tiny rectangle, tan in color, also striped silver on on end. I suspect this is only visible damage, that the overvoltage has taken the thing out (it wanted 5 volts, it got 7.5).
But I thought I would try here to see if anyone else has plugged in the wrong connector to a Linksys or similar product and salvaged it.
One last thought: I hate power transformer bricks, particularly if they have no pigtail to prevent them blocking an AC outlet (or two). I know you can get adapters to workaround this, but I hate having to do it. To add to my dislike, is the fact that the things are not marked by the factory. I have six of these wall warts behind my desk, and had marked most. I just always thought I would remember......
Darn I feel stupid.
Taking it apart, it appears that two surface mount components are blown immediately downstream from the + side of the power connector. One is a tiny black rectangle, silver on the top third, marked A41. The other is a very tiny rectangle, tan in color, also striped silver on on end. I suspect this is only visible damage, that the overvoltage has taken the thing out (it wanted 5 volts, it got 7.5).
But I thought I would try here to see if anyone else has plugged in the wrong connector to a Linksys or similar product and salvaged it.
One last thought: I hate power transformer bricks, particularly if they have no pigtail to prevent them blocking an AC outlet (or two). I know you can get adapters to workaround this, but I hate having to do it. To add to my dislike, is the fact that the things are not marked by the factory. I have six of these wall warts behind my desk, and had marked most. I just always thought I would remember......
Darn I feel stupid.