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Re:How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems by stef25 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:49AM (#18082706)
> The temperature peaked at 143 Celsius

Most electronic devices say operate between x and y degrees and if in full sunlight the temp may have exceeded y, which in a device that generates heat itself led to runaway overheating?

Either way plastic could melt at that temp and you'd definitely burn your hands touching it. Pretty crazy.

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Re:How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems by petecooper on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:10AM (#18082796)
The housing of the switch is metal with rubberised feet and bumpers. Thankfully I wasn't handling it when it was offline (and hottest), but the rubber was completely destroyed after the fact

I assume the soldered innards failed, though I never did open it up to check properly.

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