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Subject: 
I played with fire...
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Date: 
Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:00:43 GMT
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I applied 9V AC power to a RCX 2.0... yes yes, DC is required.

Does anybody successfully repaired such a disaster ?

Here are pictures pointing to what I think burned out.  What is that component ?
Anybody successfully replaced it ?

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pbegin/Divers/damage1.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pbegin/Divers/damage2.jpg

I have soldering habilities and multimeter...

Any alternative course of action to suggest ?

Thanks for the help.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: I played with fire...
 
Hi Patrick, (...) that looks like a somewhat large diode to me. In my own picture it is round and is marked with a diode symbol and "A2". (...) It shouldn't he hard to replace. But I doubt that it is the only thing that is damaged. It looks like it (...) (17 years ago, 26-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: I played with fire...
 
(...) Hello Patrick, Your RCX2 version is completely new to me - That't very interesting... more on that later (btw, would you have a photo of the other side of the board?). The component you show as burnt is most probably a power diode, as (...) (17 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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