Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Reliability of Sun 3/50's Message-ID: <8811222108.AA04335@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 01:03:29 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 88 16:08:35 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 36, message 9 of 12 > From: root@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke x2630) > > The question before us, as we contemplate acquisition of our sixth and > seventh Sun 3/50-ME-4, is 'to maintain or not to maintain?'. Has anyone > out there had conclusive experience of the failure rate of 3/50's in a > normal office environment (no a/c, isolation-txformer-type power > conditioning)? In just the last couple of months, we have had rather a lot of the flyback transformers in our 3/50 monitors going bad. #10 (of 200-odd) gave up the ghost yesterday afternoon. While Sun will tell you that the monitor will have thus-and-so MTBF, they generally seem to have computed those figures based on the machine being on during office hours only. Ours are always on. --Karl