{"id":2396,"date":"2012-04-21T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2012-04-21T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:55:22","slug":"2012-04-21-pc-board-repair-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"2012-04-21 PC Board Repair Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2399\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2399\" title=\"DSC_0466S2\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0466S2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0466S2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0466S2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A friend asked me to repair a PC board that goes into one of his kids&#8217; entertainment devices, I think it&#8217;s some kind of music organ. As can be seen, the current was so high that it vaporized the PC board trace.\u00a0 A few other parts look like they were overheated. He said the fan burned out, and it was replaced.<\/p>\n<p>I scraped off a lot of charred surface and ran some heavy copper wire along the existing trace route.\u00a0 I sure hope it doesn&#8217;t happen again, because the trace acted like a fuse and failed, therefore most likely prevented further damage, such as a fire.\u00a0 Now that it is much heavier wire, if it were to happen again, the next weakest point could be a fire hazard.\u00a0 I also replaced a 1N4007 rectifier and a 220 uF filter capacitor because they looked like they may have suffered heat damage.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta meet up with him and see if I can get a free lunch out of the deal.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked me to repair a PC board that goes into one of his kids&#8217; entertainment devices, I think it&#8217;s some kind of music organ. As can be seen, the current was so high that it vaporized the PC board trace.\u00a0 A few other parts look like they were overheated. He said the fan<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=2396\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}