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haemaker t1_ixo9blp wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Alarm clock lasted over two decades and somehow knows when daylight savings is still by VapeMySemen

What a strange bug.

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[deleted] t1_ixo9ta7 wrote

Yup. I'm guessing that there was a slight low/high voltage issue somewhere in there that was skewing it, but I wasn't going to tear it apart, figure out what component needed to be repaired/replaced, repair/replace said component, and hope that it fixed it. It would have taken hours and by that point my phone was a more reliable alarm so I got rid of it.

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turbocomppro t1_ixpk0f7 wrote

If it’s like a decade old, possible it’s just a simple capacitor. They tend to bulge and/or leak when they go bad so easy to spot. They are cheap and pretty simple to replace with a cheap $10 soldering iron.

A lot of TVs have this problem as well. Pretty much the whole TV is still good. Just a $1 capacitor on the power supply board blew.

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