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Hello all, I was charging my HB the other day, and suddenly, the two resistors right by the yellow "charge" LED on the serial interface ckt. went up in smoke. Has this happened to anyone else? Colby (27 years ago, 12-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
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did you perchance use a different telephone cable when plugging in your HB? if so, please see the FAQ for an answer. if not, there was some kind of short, either at the rj11 connectors or on the HB. -fred In your message you said: (...) (27 years ago, 12-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
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(...) Yep. You used the wrong phone cord between the HB and the serial interface board. Fred recently answered that question on this group, I'd direct you to the archives of this list but I don't know where that is. The phone cord, I *think*, is (...) (27 years ago, 12-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
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(...) the list archives are linked from the Mailing List page, which is linked from the HB Home Page. (...) Yeah, that's wrong. phone handsets use a physically different plug, so they're not going to be a problem b/c they don't plug in right. The (...) (27 years ago, 12-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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