Newly purchased RT-N16 router burning smell

[belltree]

I purchased an Asus RT-N16 router last week and have been very happy with the features and performance. That said there has been a rather strong burning smell coming from it.

Looking at the admin console (performance tuning tab) the temperature was ~55-56 C but I have since placed a laptop cooling pad underneath it which brought it down to 46C. Regardless the strong burning smell remains and shows no signs of dissipating.

Have any other RT-N16 owners experienced similar? Is this normal?

 

[joegreat]

That said there has been a rather strong burning smell coming from it.

Hi,

I do not rember that my RT-N16 did smell as it was new.

But some smell (which should go away within days) is quite normal as the used pastic components do spread the chemicals (especially when they get hot - e.g. the power supply).

With kind regards
Joe

 

[belltree]

Hi,

I do not rember that my RT-N16 did smell as it was new.

But some smell (which should go away within days) is quite normal as the used pastic components do spread the chemicals (especially when they get hot - e.g. the power supply).

With kind regards
Joe

Indeed. I am quite familiar with the smell of hot PCB's, capacitors, etc but this has been for over a week now and is making me rather nauseous.

 

[RMerlin]

Indeed. I am quite familiar with the smell of hot PCB's, capacitors, etc but this has been for over a week now and is making me rather nauseous.

Last time I ran into this was with some cheap Daewoo ADSL modem I was evaluating for work. I returned it after two days, and had work switch to a different brand because it was ridiculous. It was made of much cheaper plastic than the RT-N16 tho, I doubt any normal Asus product would suffer from this, so I would return it for replacement just to be safe, especially if the smell is still there after 1-2 days of fulltime operation.

 

[belltree]

I have since exchanged it for another RT-N16 and no more burning smell.
I have also placed a notebook cooling pad below it. I was previously getting 55-57C and now getting ~46C.