Saturday, February 20, 2010

burning down the house

My old dual lambda PS has seen better days.  I was testing some 103 concepts and the burn from the finger test on the coil made me mad... no it made me angry!  While watching channel 103 heat up, I figured channel 2 would be fun for some play so onto the story.


Meet resistor 1


 

Here is what the AB man would say under stress.


and then open circuit.

dave


2 comments:

  1. Cool pics!
    At least it's an obvious failure...much less frustrating than those totally UNobvious ones
    :-)

    Jim

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  2. The thing that comes to mind for me are all of those folks using a 10ohm 1/8W resistor as a fuse to protect their OT's. Choose the wrong kind and your fuse becomes a nice igniter.

    dave

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