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I am also getting a blinking green LED with both power supply I received. I'll try to replace the capacitors.
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-Valentín

Hi!

Just a question but is it actually demonstrated that the capacitors themselves are the root course of the failures? Sure they are bulged in the defective units, but that doesn't exclude the possibility that there's something else wrong with those PSUs which causes perfectly normal capacitors to fail after some time....I really don't know whether I would feel comfortable running those PSUs even with replaced capacitors.

HB

After using the device headless I decided to try a blue tooth adapter on the USB port. When I tried to power it up I now get the dreaded blinking green led. As noted the power supply led also blinks. I have tried several other 3A power supplies and they all behave the same way. It puzzles me why there is no mention of what the blinking means. Someone noted the power is being reset. What is resetting it and under what conditions does this happen. I am comfortable in stating that my power sources are not the problem. I am going to clear the file systems logs and see if anything gets written. If I let it run, the FPGA gets hot but nothing seems to be running either through the Video or Internet.

@bszente: Hi, that’s true that the sometimes manufactures use the low quality capacitor batch and we can find it with oscilloscope but I am wondering is there any other way to test the capacitor especially with the multimeter?

I've emailed support@adapteva.com several times regarding the PSU. (Someone mentioned sending replacements.) But, I haven't gotten any indication that my email was received.

What's going on?