My arrival at work today was heralded by a pyrotechnic display...
apparently at 6PM Friday I had installed an IC backwards, and when I
went to flip it on first thing... BLAMM! Black plastic chunks
a-flying, and that sweet perfume of fresh-baked chips. :)<br>
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Lesson learned: To avoid these kinds of mistakes, go home early on Fridays!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">harrybissell</b> <<a href="mailto:harrybissell@prodigy.net">harrybissell@prodigy.net
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Magnus Danielson wrote:<br><br>> Yes, that is correct. It was later changed since the marketing department did
<br>> not want it confused with vapourware. Now, to repair please apply the big can<br>> of grey smoke!<br>><br><br>Yes, yes I do it that way too. Sometimes there are many rounds of the<br>'grey smoke'. But then I know the FINAL circuit design has been arrived at, when
<br><br>the big puff of WHITE SMOKE comes out of the PCB. :^P<br><br>Long live PCB XII !!!<br><br>H^) harry<br><br></blockquote></div><br>