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Posted by: Mueller Mar 5 2004, 07:48 PM

I guess I should stick to Mechanical components and leave the electriacal to the professionals, LOL

I'm in the process of building a DRO (digital read out) for one of my machines at home.....

I did something wrong here, hahahaha
When I built my Megasquirt, I popped a few components as well, but I was able to trace those back to user error (mine)

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Posted by: TimT Mar 5 2004, 07:54 PM

LOL BTDT

I just finished a Tech Edge WBO2 sensor.... the board looked perfect.... till I looked closely at it... a few bridges, and a pin that missed the socket..

fixed all that and the thing works fine!!

That smoke looks a bit more serious though

Posted by: SirAndy Mar 5 2004, 07:54 PM

ahhh, the good old hobby-electronics "cancer-cloud".

just take a deep breath ...
Andy

Posted by: nebreitling Mar 5 2004, 08:11 PM

LMAO!

i can relate -- sometimes i think my life is one long DIY project gone bad...

Posted by: Britain Smith Mar 5 2004, 08:20 PM

Let me know when you have to do stuff like this Mike. I spent my entire high school career soldiering circuit boards with thousands of conections.

-Britain

Posted by: Bruce Allert Mar 5 2004, 11:22 PM

.....there goes all the magic smoke

.........b

Posted by: jonwatts Mar 6 2004, 01:07 AM

I like how the first thing that comes to mind is for you to grab your camera.

Posted by: kwales Mar 6 2004, 09:59 AM

Umm

One of those good expensive soldering irons can go a long way towards making a sucessful solder joint.

One of those units with a big seperate power box and a cord going to the iron.

They get hot enough to make the solder joint quickly without toasting the electrical components.

Right tool for the right job!

Ken

Posted by: brant Mar 6 2004, 10:28 AM

magic smoke... ha..

that what I tell the IT department at work...
"the magic leaked out in a big puff of smoke"

it gets them to your office pretty fast.
brant

Posted by: Mueller Mar 6 2004, 11:47 AM

found out the problem (user error, what else?)

the +/- silkscreen gets covered up when the header is soldered to the board....I made the a$$umtion that the square pad was the positive.......or at least it looked square from the non-component side....

Ken,

brand new Hakko ESD soldering station

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I like how the first thing that comes to mind is for you to grab your camera.

I unplugged it first, then went and got my camera and plugged it back in to take the picture....