Posts Tagged ‘regulator’

C945 transistor explodes in differential amp

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Transistor in amplifier explodes

Transistor casing piece

An unfortunate accident while probing one of the transistors in part of a differential amp circuit led to a related transistor exploding.  Credit:  edman007.

Regulator failure causes capacitor to explode

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Regulator fails and capacitor explodes

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