Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
This was not a user-serviceable part
October 29th, 2009Resistors destroyed by RF
October 29th, 2009
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
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 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
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/