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NEC ND-2510A DVD recorder

MagicBlueSmoke — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:09:24 +0000

Top of board showing destroyed SMD capacitors and inductors

Closeup of SMD parts

Bottom of board showing cracked IC

Closeup of burned IC

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.

555 timer in baby 10 sequencer cracked

MagicBlueSmoke — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:07:38 +0000

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

MAX1939 melts a leg in motherboard

MagicBlueSmoke — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:35:13 +0000

A spilled coke spilled over a laptop motherboard and fried the voltage regulator. Credit: http://www.badfirmware.org/

IC on cable modem destroyed by lightning strike to cable line

MagicBlueSmoke — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:53:11 +0000

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/