[sdiy] The annual I/O DARWIN protection thread! (revised)

[Oren Leavitt]

On 7/15/2011 7:13 AM, Harry Bissell wrote:
> The best one I've ever seen was...
>
> A user had a 9V powered guitar stompbox.
>
> The battery was, of course dead, so he...
>
> happened to have an extra battery snap.
>
> And there was an unused lamp nearby, so he...
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> cut the power cord off the lamp and...
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> twisted the wired to the battery snap and...
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> plugged the two battery snaps together and
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> plugged the line cord into the wall.
>
> This came to a freind of mine for repair, The 'user" figured the repair should not
> cost much, as the box still made some sound (like 60Hz hum). There was a rattle
> inside the unit. I found the top of the one IC the box used... blown clear off the
> top of the chip. There was a crater where the die once was.
>
> It was a 741. THey are tough little buggers, however they are not immune to atomic
> power levels (well, except in spice simulations but that's another story...)
>
> H^) harry
>


The end "user" is a force of nature to be reckoned with!

- Oren