Re: Oh Bugger!

["Alan Cockerton" <alancc@xxxxxxx>]

If they had put in a reverse polarity protection diode the problem would
not
have occurred in the first place. I fail to understand how anyone can
design
a device like this without the diode, we have the same problem with fibre
optic drivers at work, these usually pop the voltage regulator when they
go.

Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Crawshaw" <robert@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Oh Bugger!


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> From: Kenneth Watt <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>
> To: UKHA <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:25 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Oh Bugger!
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> > Sorry guys, I'm looking for a bit of help!
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> > I wired up a Xantech hidden link IR receiver and inadvertently
reversed
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> > power +/- the wrong way and it went pop! Does anyone knoe if they
can be
> > repaired and if so how?
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> Prolly just a diode gone pop, most common fault, most 12dc equipment
have
> some kind or reverse polarity protection of this type in em.
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> Robert Crawshaw                 http://www.golcar.demon.co.uk
> Member of HAUG (Huddersfield Amiga User Group)
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> The release of Windows 2000 has been put back to the first quarter of
1901
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> we work for a company that has global reach yet can't scratch it's own
arse
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