SUMMARY: Sunfire V210 PSU failures



Hello, and thanks to all who replied.

I received eight replies to this, and seven of them reported the same
problem on several V210's (no V240's). One person who had 5 V210's has
had no problems whatsoever.
One person said there was a FIN coming out on this problem.

No one has had any problems with the replacement units.
It seems that there was a bad batch on these PSU's.

So, if you have a lot of older V210's, it could be a good idea to have a
relpacement PSU handy if you have a doubt on your server room's air
conditioning.
It took almost a week for Sun to replace this part because they were out
of supply in Europe, which made me a bit nervous, as it was the first
time it has taken them more than 24 h to react. They took the time to
inform me in real time of the availability, though.

The PSU worked fine all that time without the fan, but my server room
has good air conditioning.

Cheers

We've had two fan failures within a week on the power supplies of two
identical Sunfire V210's.
Nothing dramatic, since the PSU works fine for quite a while without the
fan, given the amount of fans (and noise!) you have in this server.

However, Googling for the same problem popped up quite a lot of similar
problems with Sunfire V210's.

I was wondering whether other users had had the the same type of
problems with V210's or V240's, and whether it could be recurrent even
after the power supply replacement.
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