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Broke MoCA II: This time, the wall wart got zapped, too
Back in 2016, I did a teardown of Actiontec’s ECB2200 MoCA adapter, which had fried in response to an EMP generated by a close-proximity lightning bolt cloud-to-cloud spark (Or was it an arc? Or are they the same thing?). As regular readers may recall, this was the second time in as many years that electronics…

Taking apart a wall wart
Topic themes Although in general I strive to cover a diversity of topics here in the blog, regular readers may have noticed that some amount of chronological theme-grouping still goes on. A few years back, for example, I wrote a fair bit about building PCs, both conceptually and in un-teardown (i.e., hands-on assembly) fashion. After…