Magic Blue Smoke » regulator http://www.magicbluesmoke.org When good electronics go bad. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:03:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 C945 transistor explodes in differential amp http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/245/c945-transistor-explodes-in-differential-amp http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/245/c945-transistor-explodes-in-differential-amp#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:48:49 +0000 MagicBlueSmoke http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/?p=245

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.

]]> http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/245/c945-transistor-explodes-in-differential-amp/feed 0 Regulator failure causes capacitor to explode http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/47/regulator-failure-causes-capacitor-to-explode http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/47/regulator-failure-causes-capacitor-to-explode#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:57:28 +0000 MagicBlueSmoke http://www.magicbluesmoke.org/?p=47 Regulator fails and capacitor explodes

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

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