Don’t have much more detail on this one, but it’s a FANUC power supply unit that has failed. FANUC stands for Fuji Automatic Numerical Control. Credit: Sculptor.
Category Archive: Integrated Circuits
Integrated Circuits that have given up the Magic Blue Smoke
Mar
18
NEC ND-2510A DVD recorder
This started as a burning smell and extreme heat coming from the DVD drive, and ended up with what you see above. The PC power supply that powered the computer this drive was in failed some months after. Credit: stsm.
Dec
10
555 timer in baby 10 sequencer cracked
A simple analog sequencer referred to as a baby 10 (step) sequencer is shown with a ICM7555IPA 555 timer cracked down the middle. Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/collinmel/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Nov
27
Xbox power supply failure damages pcb
This appears to be an Xbox revision 1.1 where the power supply failure caused significant damage to the PCB. The vented capacitor in the picture is a 680uF/16V capacitor which shorted, damaged the FET, and led to the failure of the power plane. Ideally the power supply should sense failure conditions and shut down. The …
Nov
23
MAG LT716s power supply fries after capacitors fail
The capacitors in the first picture are failing as can be seen by their bulging. They are supposed to hold the electric charge for the inverter circuit using the 4511GM FET ICs shown above. Once the capacitor cannot hold its designed charge, the BIT3193 PWM controller in the middle of the bottom picture tells the …