A spilled coke spilled over a laptop motherboard and fried the voltage regulator. Credit: http://www.badfirmware.org/
Monthly Archive: October 2009
Oct
29
This was not a user-serviceable part
Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
Oct
29
Resistors destroyed by RF
Resistor was turned into a dipole antenna and coupled to the parts seen. They were destroyed when brought near a 40-50W radio transmitter. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
Oct
29
FET and inductor destroyed by wrong power supply
Customer plugged wrong transformer into board which caused the FET to fail, and then L2 to heat up and fall off the board. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
Oct
29
Regulator failure causes capacitor to explode
Regulator next to capacitor fails and causes massive capacitor explosion. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/