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We’ll be looking at the Ericsson HM410dp ADSL2+ Service Gateway. I didn’t know that Ericsson made any routers at all, this one was manufactured in 2006.

Four screws and 2 notches later we’re in.

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Just a quick teardown today – we’ll be looking at a Soniq QV320PH 32″ Plasma TV which has faulty audio – no sound, it seems to turn on and display images just fine. I opened this TV to see if I could repair it and in doing so I didn’t end up taking close ups of the chips.

After a lot of screws we’re in.

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Another quick teardown, this time we open up an Energizer AA/AAA/9V battery charger.

3 screws later and we’re in. At first it looks like a single layer board but on the back there’s a double sided board.

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I thought I’d do another quick teardown, this time of a photo keyring we had lying around for a while.

Four screws later and we’re in.

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Today we’ll be looking at the Netgear DG814 DSL Modem Internet Gateway, it looks to be the first version released which is why it looks so large compared to other routers I have looked at.

Four screws later and we’re in.

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I thought I’d do a quick teardown on a generic 4GB USB thumbdrive that stopped working, I was given this drive to be destroyed.

When inserting the thumbdrive it would recognise it however it would ask to insert a disk when clicking on the volume, so let’s open it up.

It was very easy to open up and upon first glance the build quality doesn’t seem too great but then again it’s a generic USB drive. We can see that it seems PCB wasn’t exactly made for the case which is why they have the glue to hold it in place.

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Today we’ll be looking at the Cyberguard Snapgear SME530 VPN Firewall Appliance which is used between modems/routers and the network, kind of like a UTM. Cyberguard were bought out by McAfee and then discontinued.

Two screws later and we’re in. If you look near the bottom right, you’ll see a battery probably for the RTC. Interestingly enough the Netgear UTM which I took apart also had one too but routers/modems don’t have them, I guess these kind of appliances where logs are everything you don’t want to re-set the date/time when they power down or reset .

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Today we’ll be tearing down the Netgear ProSecure Unified Treat Management UTM10; a device that inspects network traffic entering your network.

A few screws later and we’re in. We can see on the left is a small power supply, below that is a small board that has a USB connector. We’ve got 2 chips with heatsinks, one which looks like a piece of stone. There is also an Apacer 2GB CF card which I’m guessing is where either the firmware might live or where logs, etc will be kept.

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Just another quick one, I’ll be taking a look at a HP ML350 G6 Server’s hot plug power supply with Part No 499250-001 (Spare Part No 511777-001).

It’s quite a small unit and as you can see it doesn’t have the usual power supply connectors.

The usual power supply components are present.

There does seem to be some temperature monitoring going on; which is something that I guess should be expected if you’re using a power supply on a server, you’d want it to have all the features.

Quite a lot of components on the board than what you’d normally find. That’s all for this quick teardown.

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It’s that time again… time to take something apart :). This time it’s the D-Link DE-824TP 10BASE-T Ethernet Hub which I bought second hand back in 2003. Yes this one’s a hub, not a switch!

Just going to be a quick one.

We can see the power supply at the top left. The main board has 24x Ethernet filter modules for each port and 3 microcontrollers each handling 8 ports. There’s a BNC and AUX connectors at the back.

Just a close up of the power supply, to me it looks nicely laid out. What’s a bit odd is how the diodes are directly touching the board, they are a few centimetres above it.

Hehe, I just had to take this picture. I should have something made a bit more recently for my next teardown.

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