Anybody know anything about a little black plastic and metal can rig on a Dell 4700 and some other dell boards called a circuit breaker? Trying to find some way of replacing one but don't know just how it works.
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Re: Dell 4700 circuit breaker
Called a circuit breaker by who?
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Some time back there was a review I read on the 4700 which mentioned this thing they called a circuit breaker; now I can't find it again nor another reference to it. Can't take a picture because I don't own a camera, first, and second, totally destroyed the thing trying to figure out how it works. From the three pieces which fell out of the little can it's probably just mechanical but can't be sure.
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E210882 is not a model number.
It's kind of like the Aussie version of a UL number.
Many models of boards will have the same number.
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Model number is in the string on the bar code sticker and would be something like M3918 or DH682.
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I can't see the part well enough to tell what it is.
Dell docs don't mention a circuit breaker at all.
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It's OM3918Mann-Made Global Warming.
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Most certainly could be a crystal.
Crystals come in many different packages.
If it were a circuit breaker that means users might have to operate it and it would be in the manual.
Not only does the manual not mention a circuit breaker, the component isn't shown on the mobo drawing at all.
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Guys, I don't recall the article saying it had anything to do with the sata ports. STILL can't find the damn thing.
When I took the can apart three tiny pieces fell out. Two were maybe a bit longer than 1/8" and perhaps less than 1/64 wide, flat and shiny. The third was a rectangle maybe 1/32 by 1/16. The color was different from the strips. I can say it wasn't a quartz crystal, but it may well have had a coating of some kind.
According to the article the thing was supposed to be able to swing up, though when I found it, it was already loose and my efforts to swing it up completed the job of tearing it off.
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