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KPLAYER5000 shelf life

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talitha

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Hi..
i have had 11 kplayer 5000's for a good ten years.. question is, do they all have an exact life expectancy? I have lost every one in the last year.. I know 10 years is a lot, and they are obsolete AF, but thats got to be a programmed time of death surely
 
While I cannot explain why your 5000's have all failed so close together in time, the software has no effect on the life of any component. There is no "programmed time of death," but like all electronics some parts naturally fail over time. Ten years of use is actually good for an electronic component, but I know that doesn't help your situation. I believe most failures are because of the power supply. K sells a power supply repair kit ($225) for the 5000.

The 5000's, while certainly outdated, are still working in many DVD based systems.
 
Not disagreeing with the power supply at all, especially knowing the kind of impact they can take if the power to a device isn’t cleaned and corrected and only connected to wall power or a certain level of surge protection. This makes total sense, esp in same envirment.

I would wonder myself if they use any belts (prob direct drive) as I could see similar units from similar batches failing “around” a similar timeframe failing. Dating myself a bit I recall many old school speaker drivers (material depending) failing around the same time when in the same location in the same use. Speaking to a lot of people about old school turntables and cassette decks there seems to be a set life to belts in those machines, understanding that use and environment to play a factor and could swing things by years.

I only bring this up based on my experience with materials and things like speaker drivers and belts breaking down in similar timeframes when other conditions are similar.
 
talitha said:
Hi..
i have had 11 kplayer 5000's for a good ten years.. question is, do they all have an exact life expectancy? I have lost every one in the last year.. I know 10 years is a lot, and they are obsolete AF, but thats got to be a programmed time of death surely
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Almost certainly the electrolytic capacitors in the power supplies. They have a definite service life and a fairly sharp L-shaped failure curve.
 
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