This was not a user-serviceable part

October 29th, 2009

This was not user servicable

Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/

Resistors destroyed by RF

October 29th, 2009

Parts fried 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/

FET and inductor destroyed by wrong power supply

October 29th, 2009

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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/

Regulator failure causes capacitor to explode

October 29th, 2009

Regulator fails and capacitor explodes

Regulator next to capacitor fails and causes massive capacitor explosion.  Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/

IC on cable modem destroyed by lightning strike to cable line

October 29th, 2009

Cratered IC on cable modem

Lightning struck the cable line on this cable modem.  Damage shown is part of the PHY, along with damage not visible to two of the resistors that came from the ethernet port.  Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/

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