Signs of pending death of a GEM PSU

[bgrubb1]

Just as a heads up for anyone else that has this issue
I have had an issue for a while where regardless of adjustment values, I could not get the GEM reported Voltage up to actual (reads 116 versus 120)
This morning I received a few texts that reported the voltage had dropped to 2.3 volts when I had no power outage. In monitoring it throughout the morning, I was seeing current spikes on all channels. (see attached) I power cycled the GEM and although lights would come on and the PSU read 5.0V open circuit, the GEM appeared dead, couldn't even ping it.
I replaced the GEM PSU with a 5V 2A wallwort from a Netgear switch. All is good again, power spikes all gone.

[Teken]

bgrubb1,

There was a small batch were Brultech received some less than stellar power supplies from their vendor. I also had one PSU fail early on but it was replaced under warranty.

As I understand it the new branded PSU transformer units are much better and not prone to this issue.

[ben]

Interesting that it was causing spikes, I'll forward this along to Paul.