My second digibox blew up. It was the replacement for the first one that blew up except this one is just out of the one year guarrantee.
I blame a new breed of scientist, probably a DSP type driving a 4 x 4.
The scientists who designed e.g. the "Toshiba Six Transistor Radio" that could run for a year on bird dropping are probably dead. The man who designed the RTC IC, also linear-partly, that could run for ten years on even less is probably retired and growing orchids or trimmming his Bonsai trees.
The standby power comsumed by both digi boxes *was* 8W as opposed to non-standy power consumption of 9W Eh?
The EU (a sarcastic use of the greek prefix meaning "well formed") decided to save the planet by limiting standby consumption to 1W.
I suggest that a 1W resistors be strapped to their genitalia and then have them dissipate 1W of power each.
Robin