Originally Posted by Chuck CoW
They can be run faster when you keep them cool as they won't start glowing, but they will run faster when hot. The faster they run the hotter they get and you end up with a runaway thermal failure in extreme cases. which is why all the effort on keeping things cool. In this case, one piece has a crystal and runs at a constant speed and it was in a race with a part with an internal oscillator which when warmed up was able to win the race.
Worked for me, no idea if it will work for anyone else. Conceptually I have the tools to actually fix them no matter what but Paul was busy ignoring me so I "had" to experiment.
What I really want to know is if this works for anyone else. I'll have another unit tomorrow to try it on but I was hoping to avoid them all coming to me.
Ira
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